Interior of Blue Mosque

By Muslim law, there is no representation of animals, humans or angelic beings in a mosque. The thousands of tiles and mosaics represent flowers and geometric patterns. This one was somewhat marred by the maze of lights and sound equipment above our heads. No shoes allowed - they were laid on low benches barely visible to the right of the doors in the picture. On the floor were thousandss of prayer rugs laid in perfect rows. We saw a worker running a vacuum cleaner back and forth over them like someone mowing grass.