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Identifier: gri_33125009339611 (find matches)
Title: A description of the East, and some other countries
Year: 1743 (1740s)
Authors: Pococke, Richard, 1704-1765 Gravelot, Hubert François, 1699-1773 Grignion, Charles, 1721-1810
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Publisher: London : Printed for the author, by W. Bowyer : And sold by J. and P. Knapton, W. Innys, W. Meadows, G. Hawkins, S. Birt, T. Longman, C. Hitch, R. Dodsley, J. Nourse, and J. Rivington
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efemofques there are commonly places to prepare, and diftribute provifionsto the poor on certain days; there are alfo generally near them fhops anda bagnio for the fupport of the mofques. The grand fignor goes everyFriday to one of thefe royal mofques, taking them commonly one afteranother, by reafon that there is a benefa£lion given to the mofque he goesto, which I was informed, is five hundred dollars: The other two are theWaladea mofque, and fultan Bajazet; all of them having in them, andthe courts belonging to them, many fine pillars, efpecially of verd an-tique : There is alfo a royal mofque built by Mahomet the fecond, to theweft of the city at a place called foupe, which has its name from Joupea TurkiOi flint, to whom the mofque is dedicated : In this mofque thegrand fignor receives folemn poflefiion of his dominions, by having afword girded about him by the mufti. I was curious to fee fuch of thernofques as 1 could find had formerly been churches, and among them1 particularly
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Back ofFoldoutNot Imaged ON THRACE. J particularly faint Sophia; there are in it eight porphyry pillars, andas many of verd antique, which, I believe, for their fize are not to: be exceeded in the world ; for the dome being fupported by four largepiers; between them are four verd antique pillars on each fide, and a fe-micircle being formed as at each corner by thefe and four more piers,. there are two porphyry pillars in each of them, and it appears plainlythat there was a third; for there is an arch filled up next to eachpier, which was doubtlefi done in order to ftrengthen thofe piers,I the building having vifibly given way at the fouth weft corner,I where the pillars of the gallery hang over very much ; two of the: porphyry pillars in the portico of Solimanea, might be taken from1 this mofque, and probably the other two might be found, if alli the mofqucs and the feraglios were examined; thefe pillars are aboutI two feet and a half in diameter, and of a proportionable height; there

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