Icmeler Online Holiday Forum & Reviews - Turkey

Hi Icmelarians. I have always wanted to visit the inside of a Mosque. I do know the rules about what to wear and i also know not to go at prayer time. Are the Mosque doors always open and is it acceptable to take pics in them? I was thinking of visiting the one by the out door market. 2 more sleeps. Happy hols. Jem xxxx

we went on an organised trip once and had to cover ourselves up, took a Few pictures inside

Be interesting to hear the answer to that question. I know you have to cover yourself up but don't know if you can go in anytime.

My kids would not let me go last year they were frightened of the singing. My little girl clung to me everytime she heard the call. I hope to have got her sorted for this year keep showing her the clips on Youtube of the mosques to get her use to the singing again

Mandy

I always find the prayers from The muezzin quite haunting

Oh I love it especially when it is night time. There is something really special about it I think. Would love to go inside one.

Mandy

me too Mandy, but it's the morning ones I like best - being woken up by that and the cockerels....can't beat it

Me too..... the sound is haunting

We were more aware of the calling to prayer when we were there in May, possibly because we didnt have the air con on .

We visited the mosque in Bayeu (? spelling?) it was really interesting....amazing though the women had to cover up but the men didn't

I spent some time in the Mid East in my younger days, it takes me back

It makes you remember the difference in culture you sometimes forget with all the western type influences

tonytigwall wrote:It makes you remember the difference in culture you sometimes forget with all the western type influences

I love listening to him in the mornings it just reminds you were you are

we were on a gulet in Bodrum once and moored beside the mosque.what an exotic wake up call that was.

Sue wrote:

tonytigwall wrote:It makes you remember the difference in culture you sometimes forget with all the western type influences

I love listening to him in the mornings it just reminds you were you are

not sure about Turkey, but in some countries, you can get recordings of them - now that would be a hol CD with a difference

Fanny wrote:

Sue wrote:

tonytigwall wrote:It makes you remember the difference in culture you sometimes forget with all the western type influences

I love listening to him in the mornings it just reminds you were you are

not sure about Turkey, but in some countries, you can get recordings of them - now that would be a hol CD with a difference

I've a recording on my phone of one of the mosques in Alanya I think it's quite weird when you hear them now, most of them use tapes and if you listen closely enough you hear the tape bleep at the end when the recording is finished.

The bleep at begining and end is the microphone switching on as we know the person who does the one in Icmeler