30 Christmas Home Decor Ideas

If you’re thinking of hosting a New Year party in your house, then apart from just preparing a new year’s table, you can also think of decorating places like your hall, kitchen and entrance. Whatever your plans may be, be it to pass good time with family or host friends, it is appropriate to do a new year – type decoration.

Ahi Celebi Mosque

Ahi Celebi Mosque was presumably built between the years 1480-1500. The mosque, which was built on a rectangular plan, supported by two arches and has a single dome, was constructed by the order of Tabip Kemal Ahi Can Tebrizi; the head doctor at Sultan Mahmut Han’s Darü’s Sifa (spot of healing) and head of the kitchen in his palace.

The Realities of Sit-Ups, Exercises and Belly Fats

Is it possible to burn belly fats by doing sit-ups?

I want to start by answering the question stated in the heading; it is impossible to burn belly fats just by doing sit-ups. If you are looking for exercises that will save you from your belly, then you have to do cardio exercises. 

Let’s now expand this more:

The Museum of Great Palace Mosaics

The Great Palace Mosaics Museum is a mosaic museum located in Arasta Pazar in Sultanahmet Square in Istanbul. 

 The museum building was built on the remains of the Grand Palace’s (Buchaleon Palace) “peristil” (columned yard with an open space in the middle) section covered with mosaics, where the Blue Mosque was built upon. 

The Cistern of Philoxenos / The Binbirdirek Cistern

The cistern was built by Senator Philoxenus, one of the senators which were forced to migrate during the reconstruction of Constantinople by Constantine the Great, to be the main supply of this palace in 4th century. 

Bodrum Mosque and Cistern

Bodrum Mosque (formerly known as “Myrelaion Orthodox Church”) is known to be built by the order of Emperor Romanos I Lekapenos as a church for a nuns monastery around 920 A.D. Origins of the name “Myrelaion” which means “a place of myrrh oil” is not clearly known.

Ruins of St. Polyeuktos Church

Being built by one of the strongest woman of East Roman Empire, Anicia Juliana, St. Polyeuktos is dedicated to St. Polyeuktos from Malatya, Turkey. 

The ruins were found in the year 1960 during some diggings made for the construction of Hasim Iscan Passage, a new city hall and some way in Sarachane district.