Prayer

I actually saved this picture with audio so everyone could hear the prayer that happened several times a day and the noon prayer on Friday, pretty much everything shut down for 30 minutes or so. You probably can not see it, but there is a place to wash your feet along the wall before you enter the mosque. As visitors, we did not have to wash our feet, but we did have to take our shoes off.

Good Weekend

February 25th 2007
I was real good and had the pictures download and posted to this blog entry, but never wrote anything to go with it so before I head to bed this evening, I will get something posted. I had better because on Saturday I leave with Alex to some city east of Moscow about four hours by train. It is some friends of his and I want to see as much as I can so we we are heading out on Saturday and coming ... read more

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Modern Turkey was founded in 1923 from the Anatolian remnants of the defeated Ottoman Empire by national hero Mustafa KEMAL, who was later honored with the title Ataturk, or "Father of the Turks." Under his authoritarian leadership, the country adopt... ... read more

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