Minarets Collection (page 9)

Galata Bridge (New Bridge) - Constantinople
View toward Karakeui in the hazy late afternoon light across the New Bridge (Galata Bridge). A solitary tram heads across the cobbled span. Postcard by Publishing House of Rochat

Karakeui Bridge - Sunset
Setting sun over the Karakeui Bridge (later supercede by the Galata Bridge). Postcard by Publishing House of Rochat. Inspired to issue a series of cards of quite well-known views of Constantinople

Blue Mosque / Fountain of Wilhelm II
The Blue Mosque or Mosque of Sultan Ahmet I with seven minarets and the Fountain of Kaiser Wilhelm II, Constantinople. The capital city of the Roman Empire between 330-395 AD, in Byzantine times

Constantinople - Yeni Cami Mosque
The Yeni Cami ( New Mosque of the Valide Sultan ) at Constantinople, Turkey. Standing at the Stanboul end of the Galata Bridge

Constantinople - View of the city across Golden Horn
A very attractive view of Constantinople across the Golden Horn in the late afternoon light. Promotional card for the Hamburg-America line - an enterprise established in Hamburg

Constantinople - View taken from the Galata Tower looking from the European toward the Asian side of the Bosphorus

The Blue Mosque, Cairo, Egypt
The Blue Mosque (or the Aqsunqur Mosque) located in Cairo, Egypt is one of several blue mosques in the world. Completed in 1347, the Blue Mosque, located in the heart of Islamic Cairo

Constantinople - RMS Carinthia
RMS Carinthia was first laid down in Barrow-in-Furness in 1924 with the yard number Hull 586. Originally she had the name Servia but was renamed at the time of her launching on 24 February 1925

Algerian Fantasy card depicting Mecca

The Mosque of Ahmad Ibn Tulun, Cairo, Egypt
The Mosque of Ahmad Ibn Tulun is located in Cairo, Egypt. It is arguably the oldest mosque in the city surviving in its original form, and is the largest mosque in Cairo in terms of land area

Al-Azhar University and Mosque, Cairo, Egypt
Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt, founded in 975. The chief centre of Arabic literature and Sunni Islamic learning in the world and the worlds second oldest surviving degree granting university

The Citadel and Muhammad Ali Mosque, Cairo, Egypt
The Citadel, Cairo, Egypt. In the 12th century, Saladin and his successors built an impenetrable bastion in the Citadel, using the most advanced construction techniques of the age

Panorama - Tophane & Bosphous, Constantinople
Panorama - View toward Tophane & the Bosphous, Constantinople at sunset. Tophane was where the principal military foundry of the Ottoman Empire used to be located

View of the Bosphorus with old fortifications, villages and Mosques, Constantinople, Turkey

Fantasy card - flying over Constantinople
Wonderful fantasy card depicting British soldiers flying over the distinctive skyline and rooftops of Constantinople in a very early aeroplane (seemingly held together by string and luck)

Bosnia & Herzegovina - Mostar. View of the River Neretva, flanked by two mosques

Christian propaganda postcard
A postcard depicting the Ayasofya Mosque with a fascinating inset picture showing the Turkish crescent shoe stamping on the Christian cross and on the reverse of the card the caption reads

The Tombs of the Khalifs, Cairo, Egypt

General View of Cairo, Egypt
General view over the domes, minarets and rooftops of Cairo, Egypt

Aya Sofya in Moonlight - Constantinople
The Hagia Sophia Mosque in Moonlight with the Hippodrome (and associated obelisks) in the foreground

Manisa on the Meander, Turkey - the grand Mosque
The Grand Mosque at Manisa (Magnesia), Turkey. On the Meander River - from which the word meander comes from

The Royal Pavilion
The exterior of the Royal Pavilion at Brighton

Cairo / Circa 1700(Allard)
A view toward Cairo. Date: circa 1700

Mosque Minarets / Cairo
Minarets of the Muhammed Ali Mosque, the tallest rising to 84 metres

Sultan Hassan Mosque
The minarets of the Sultan Hassan Mosque, one rising to a height of 81.6 metres

Cairo / Circa 1970
General view of Cairo from the Citadel, with Old Cairo in the foreground

Budapest under Attack
The life of Pest the flourishing medieval city was transformed by 150 years of Turkish occupation between 1541 and 1686. Minarets and Mosques are depicted here

View of Alexandria 1846
A view toward Alexandria

Cairo / The Citadel / 1935
The Citadel

Minarets at Tunis

Tunis Rooftops
Minarets soar over the rooftops of the city

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