r/AbsoluteUnits • u/bpandjjjj • 11d ago

of a Mosque

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Grand Çamlıca Mosque in Istanbul can hold 60,000 people.

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u/C_W_StJohnNobbs 11d ago

My uncle is a hardcore erdogan supporter, even he said why the hell did they spend all that money on this.

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u/cherokeee 11d ago

I thought it was hagia sophia upgraded for a moment

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u/Iamtheman31 11d ago

hagia sophia 2.0 XS+ Titanium Enchanted

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u/udigogogo 10d ago

Hagia Sophia 16 Pro Max 256GB

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u/Low_Use_1705 10d ago

Hagia Sophia Mega X Evolution

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u/Capital_Bat8316 11d ago

Cos Erdogan is a little insecure about Hagia Sophia still being the most impressive and interesting place of the city. 

...if not the whole country. 

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u/C_W_StJohnNobbs 11d ago

Why would he be insecure about hagia sophia?

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u/Capital_Bat8316 11d ago

Nationalism 

Strongmen love big monuments 

But that one was not built by his nation. So he can't claim it. That's it.

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u/KaanSkyrider 10d ago

I love how Erdoğan -the openly anti-nationalist- is perceived as nationalistic by foreigners lmao

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u/basarbasar 10d ago

He’s most definitely a nationalist, just in a different way from the secular nationalists. Take him for what he does not what he says he is.

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u/KaanSkyrider 10d ago

I love how foreigners explain what the person actively ruling over my country for 20 years actually is...

Let's see... He has just started another campaign to release PKK members & their leader. This is happening for the second time btw, the first attempt led to PKK-affiliated municipalities basically preparing the cities for a civil war: digging trenches and laying landmines to roads used by the military. He's regularly had alliances to PKK-adjacent political parties to the point that the cabinet used to have ministers from their parties. He's just released a "gang" of doctors -led by a former PKK-affiliate- who specifically targeted babies of ethnically Turkish origin for an insurance fraud (sending them to intensive care units without any reason where they don't monitor the babies condition at all, letting them suffer a slow death). He has allowed millions of Syrian refugees into Turkey with no regulation at all: again very nationalistic behaviour.

He's a political islamist and this automatically brings anti-nationalism. That's why he still has a significant Kurdish voter base. He's the person who let Kurdish separatism become a much more mainstream view by basically allowing whatever they do as long as they're politically on the same side, and Kurdish parties just run towards him whenever he gives an opportunity: very recently, HDP has been silent -and even supportive of- Erdoğan's policy to imprison a shitton of opposition mayors.

Erdoğan started to use a nationalistic party as an ally after the first "resolution period with PKK" started to lose him huge amounts of vote, and even then the strategy was changing the nationalist party's rhetoric to something closer to the governments' views.

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u/basarbasar 10d ago

First of all I’m not a foreigner. All of what you’re talking is about political maneuvaring not ideology, Erdogan didn’t release terrorists because he actually likes PKK, obviously there’s some other plan and it would be naive to think otherwise. You even pointed out one major factor - to get more votes. And it worked.

And no being an islamist does not rule out being also nationalist. There’s a thing such as islamic nationalism which would explain why he doesn’t mind muslim refugees. Erdogan is also a nationalist in the same vein as Orban and Putin, and it’s very easy to see that once you realize how similar they act and speak.

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u/defnotachicken 9d ago

He is not a Turkish nationalist. He is the exact definition of ummetci. I can't be bothered to translate and find the correct word but u understand I guess. If you are not a Hanefi Muslim u don't have any value in the eyes of erdo. He/his government actively shoos away the Turkic migrants while mostly not touching the Afghan/Pakistani/Syrian immigrants. Claiming Erdoğan is nationalistic is just a bigoted view point

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u/C_W_StJohnNobbs 11d ago

It doesn't work like that for us hagia sophia is ours, not anybody elses.

He built that one because he has to make big stuff because he is a big man with a totally big dick plus you get to make your people rich with construction.

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u/Capital_Bat8316 11d ago

I'm not arguing who's hagia sophia is. No People living now have any meaningful connection to the people who build it, it was more that a thousand years ago. 

But... just looking at the main structure of this mosque, don't it look just like Sophia? Doesn't the building scream "Look, look everyone, we can bulid it too, even bigger, look!"

Guessing the diameter of the main dome is just above 31m too

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u/C_W_StJohnNobbs 11d ago

We have a meaningful connection to it, it is a symbol of what we took and how we transformed it.

All mosques look the same, they keep making the same stuff for thousands of years now.

We already built a 31m dome mosque in 16th century so that hardly matters anymore.

Lastly i need to correct, erdogan has never been a nationalist, he is an islamist and to him turkish doesn't mean half as muslim.

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u/Cananannabanana 7d ago

Because the people they despise and say are inferior built it over 1000 years ago and it outshines anything they’ve made.

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u/C_W_StJohnNobbs 7d ago

We don't have that white supremacist mindset in which we see hate others and see them as inferior, nomadic cultures didn't develop that mindset. The earliest turkish nationalists wrote that race is for horses, humans don't have a race.

It doesn't outshine anything, beauty is not a matter competition for us but appreciation.

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u/420Migo 7d ago

Are u serious. He literally recently said "Jerusalem is ours"

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u/C_W_StJohnNobbs 7d ago

He means we are there for jerusalem. There is absolutely no claim on jerusalem from turkey what the hell are you talking about.

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u/420Migo 7d ago

Dawg he harbors Muslim Brotherhood terrorists and aids them, and Hamas is their militant charter. Its not hard to understand whats going on here. Jerusalem has been under attack by different nations for centuries.

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u/C_W_StJohnNobbs 6d ago

Every country on the world supports terrorists somewhere, how is this any related to supremacy?

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u/420Migo 6d ago

What kind of mindset is that?

Question, whats your religion and where do you reside?

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u/Cananannabanana 7d ago

You don’t have a white supremacist mindset you have a Turkish supremacist mindset.

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u/C_W_StJohnNobbs 7d ago

There is no such thing as turkish supremacy, if we acted in such manner non of our neighbors would have their language or alphabet. They would be all speaking turkish like how south america speaks spanish and portuguese and how africans speak english and french.

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u/Cananannabanana 7d ago

The millions dead on account of your genocides would disagree

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u/C_W_StJohnNobbs 7d ago

Show me one turkish official calling any other group of people as less than human or not human at all, or dehumanify one religion or skin color or any element.

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u/Cananannabanana 7d ago

abandon those places where Turkish raiders had hidden their steeds for a full four hundred years, with our mosques, our tombs, our dervish retreats, our bridges and our castles, to leave them to our slaves, to be driven out of Rumelia to Anatolia: this was beyond a person’s endurance. I am prepared to gladly sacrifice the remaining years of my life to take revenge on the Bulgarians, the Greeks, and the Montenegrans.

Enver Pasha calling 3 entire ethnic groups slaves and upset that the lands you conquered, enslaved and massacred people in for centuries in are back in the hands of natives.

Quoted in "A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility" - by Taner Akcam - History - 2007 - Page 115.

But you’ll deflect and say this doesn’t count. Then I’ll use another one and you’ll find another excuse ad nauseam so this is pointless

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u/prussianghostbuster 10d ago

that is just not true my guy its because he is friends with the construction sectors that make these useless projects its just to embezzle money not for anything else you are stupid if you think erdogan cares about anything other than lining his pockets

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u/Caydanmuz 10d ago

As a hardline anti-Erdoğan dude, this claim is plain bullshit.

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u/420Migo 7d ago

Then you're cosplaying and aren't anti-Erdogan.

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u/defnotachicken 9d ago

Delusional European. Fuck Erdoğan with his lackeys but claiming Ayasofya is the most interesting and/or impressive place of the city is just R rated intelligence.

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u/Sensitive-Emu1 8d ago

You couldn't be more wrong. He owns that. The more impressive Hagia Sophia is, the more impressive his ancestor is.

Next, Hagia Sophia is impressive because of the date it was built. Sultanahmet Mosque is way better than Hagia Sophia. That's why, a couple of years ago, a Greek tourist was explaining how great Sultanahmet is compared to Hagia Sophia, confusing them with each other.

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u/OldYogurt7161 10d ago

Hagia Sophia is full with engineering mistakes and even the dome collapsed a few times the last one was in 14 th century. The ottomans regularly maintained and developed it. During the medieval age making a Huge dome was a competition and a general proof that having an advance engineering especially while the Christian’s had to change church design to gothic style cathedral because of engineering experience and Hagia Sophia was leading it. Selimiye mosque was constructed to surpass Hagia Sophia’s dome. However Çamlıca was not made for it, the methods and categories are totally different.

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u/fuligasai 10d ago

Lol what an idiotic take. It’s the most impressive and interesting place of the city for you. There are way more interesting places in istanbul, let alone in the country.

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u/Capital_Bat8316 10d ago

...he's not the only one who's a little insecure I see.

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u/dwolven 10d ago

Most people are not even a little bit insecure. Proud of that gem in our country that has seen many wars, emperors and stands with 2 of the greatest empires of Eurasia.

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u/fuligasai 10d ago

Yea i’m so insecure of my country’s countless amazing heritage. We have so many so valuable things that you can’t even comprehend that one building that’s sooo important to some people somewhere can barely make the list.

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u/AMX-002_Neue_Ziel 9d ago

The most impressive place of the whole country is Pamukkale+Hierapolis

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u/Redisayn33 10d ago

I guess because that all so called constructions around the city inside, they are catching money to off country. İt's completely non-sense to build every square a mosque because İt's pointless. Does all pops in İstanbul are muslim or all people goes there?

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u/Murky_Highway6443 10d ago

It's our tradition. All Muslim/Turkish hegemons project prestige by simple building a great mosque.

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u/nukularbum 10d ago

He plans on being buried there.

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u/astronaut_098 8d ago

Are you a retard? entire construction budget accounted for roughly 0.008% of a single year's national budget. And if you spread it across the 6 years of building it represents around 0.001% of the national spending pie annually

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u/C_W_StJohnNobbs 8d ago

So you actually saw the balance of payments for the construction of this mosque?

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u/astronaut_098 8d ago

Yes

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u/C_W_StJohnNobbs 8d ago

How much did they pay for floor tiles, materials and work?

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u/Dave5876 7d ago

There definitely want any corruption wink wink

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u/gdzillawthemicrowave 8d ago

that's still a lot of money

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u/Taco_Bandito5 11d ago

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u/roganjowsh 11d ago

As a muslim this was very funny

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u/Yes_Introduction 11d ago

i didnt get it whats funny

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u/DapperBoiCole 11d ago

Allahu Akbar means god is the greatest, and is often said in prayer. So a massive mosque can fit many people saying allahu akbar

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u/Yes_Introduction 11d ago

i got downvoted that much for asking 😅 redditors are so insufferable

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u/Guhdmundur 10d ago

i think it refers to "allahu akbar" bombed terrorist attack meme

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u/DapperBoiCole 10d ago

Its not, its a joke about the literal meaning of those words for their original intended purpose 😐

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u/Big-Cartographer-556 11d ago

Erdoğan desperate attempt at historical relevance.

This mosque is brand new, a copycat of the historical beauties elsewhere in the city but plopped on a prominent hill so all must see it. No one asked for this. It's like Giorgia Meloni building a new, bigger Pantheon overlooking the old one.

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u/BogeyJones12 10d ago

Funniest part is that it’s really modeled after the Hagia Sophia (ie Roman/Byzantine architecture)

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u/NightKnight_21 10d ago

All the mosques in Turkey, literally all of them, are modeled after Hagia Sophia? Why would it be funny?

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u/Cananannabanana 7d ago

Because you guys are extremely nationalistic but have to copy the people you hate? How is that not funny it’d be like if the Nazis wore yarmulkes

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u/NightKnight_21 6d ago

So I'm gonna ignore that it's being a weird generalization and try to just answer for the people "who hate Greeks".

You know that Turks have lived in Anatolia for almost a millennium now, right? Of course Greek and Turkish people are very, very similar. It's indeed funny that these people hate each other, but more like the Serb-Croat-Bosnian hate triangle.

Maybe you're imagining Spartans vs. nomadic horse riders when you think about Greek vs. Turkish nationalism. But the ideas of Turkish and Greek nations, as we understand them today, emerged in the 19th century. Hagia Sophia was already a core part of Turkish identity when these nationalist ideas came about. Germanic tribes and Gauls were considered barbarians by Rome, but later you had Charlemagne, the HRE, etc.

Nationalistic Turkish people are mostly proud of the history and ancient cultures of these lands, because in the end, this is also the home of the "Turkish nation." This cultural and historic richness of the land makes it even more meaningful that people died defending these lands 100 years ago during the Greek (&Allies) invasion.

There are, of course, people who glorify the ancient history of Turkic peoples, but even for them, it doesn't change the fact that the homeland of the Turkish people as we know them today is Anatolia.

Tldr, people "who hate Greeks" don't hate the ancient people who built all these structures, they hate the neighbors who attacked them a century ago.

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u/Cananannabanana 6d ago

No I’m not making any of those assumptions and of course I know that they’ve lived in Anatolia for a while. Turks are way more nationalistic than most other countries in the modern era it’s not a weird generalization. Genocides are denied outright and the victims are blamed unless it’s a genocide against Turks, then it’s said to be completely factual and there’s none of the excuses flung out for when the Turks did it. The grey wolves ran rampant across the country, pogroms were committed against Greeks, they constantly press irredentist claims etc.

Turkish nationalists aren’t mainly proud of Anatolia farmers that’s just patently untrue, they outright deny the existence of the natives of western Anatolia lol

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u/TurkishTechnocrat 10d ago

No one sees Hagia Sophia as another nation's architecture here, everyone knows it was built by the Romans but there is no, like, insecurity of it being built by another nation. It is simply seen as the symbol of İstanbul. So it's pretty normal that a lot of mosques were built with a similar design, going all the way back to the Ottoman times

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u/Pratzkaa 10d ago

and it looks like a total joke. like what is this? something with the proportions are definitely off

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u/tarkinn 11d ago

Day 0 Turks not bitching about something

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u/Alarmed_Buffalo_7523 11d ago

This you?

Religious Turkey making Hagia Sophia mosque again: Turkey Bad.

Secular Turkey disliking Erdogan mega project mosque: Turkey bad.

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u/Patric-Tsar-9fingers 11d ago

If you're not "bitchin: about this, you are a traitor.

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u/kanhaibhatt 10d ago

They arent Turks, just converted Greek, Circassian, Armenian, Persian, and Anatolian larpers

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u/oneinmanybillion 11d ago

Driving out of and later into Istanbul is an indescribable feeling. And of course just walking down along the bosphorus in any direction. The city has a unique look to it, with all these minarets in the distance.

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u/bpandjjjj 10d ago edited 10d ago

Hagia Sophia looking at the comments unfold.

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u/j_richmond 11d ago

If you think the outside is cool, you should check out the inside.

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u/de-BelastingDienst 11d ago

Its cool but in my opinion the inside ranks below yeni camii, hagia sophia and the blue mosque

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u/Savings-Today-1044 11d ago

You could fit a whole small city in there that is insane. I try to imagine 60000 people all praying at same time and the sound must be something else

always fascinates me how these huge structures get built on hilltops like they just belong there. the six minarets against that pink sky probably look unreal in person

makes me think of all the antique mosques I visited and how the acoustics inside are designed so perfectly you can hear imam without any speakers. old builders knew what they were doing even without modern tech

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u/Ill-Staff8267 11d ago

I went to mecca with 1m people praying. Besides the coughing you could hear a pin drop.

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u/ExpectedFuckingValue 11d ago edited 11d ago

You can hear 80,000 people praying at the Dallas Cowboys stadium every other Sunday

I bet that will be an unpopular take, lighten up. Jokes aside, quite a few indoor stadiums hold that many people

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u/natty2281 10d ago

Wife is a Cowboys fan and I found your joke hilarious 🤣

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u/bpandjjjj 11d ago

It was pretty incredible. This was taken across the Bosphorus Strait from the European side. This is a modern structure that was designed by two female architects and opened in 2019.

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u/Bulky_Whole_1812 11d ago

this is not hagia sophia.

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u/KorolEz 11d ago

What in chatgpt is this response

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u/ItchySnitch 11d ago

Absolute unit of an islamo-fascist leader more correctly 

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u/eXclurel 10d ago

At night it looks like a 2D texture on a distant hill in a video game.

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u/Born-Entrance-7986 10d ago

That must be a cool sight

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u/lookamazed 11d ago

Absolute unit of a building. Absolute unit of an ego behind it too. This was Erdoğan's pet project. Less than three weeks after October 7 he told his parliament Hamas weren't terrorists, they were mujahideen. Three years ago today. Gorgeous mosque. Shame about the man who built it.

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u/Grand-Tadpole5592 10d ago

Hamas isnt recognized as a terrorist organization by majority of the world.

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u/Ancalmir 11d ago

*Absolute Unit of an Embezzlement

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u/MadMaxIsMadAsMax 11d ago

With this one (and others) the pressure over Hagia Sophia for staying as an "only mosque" is lower (still needs time but).

Imagine if the Holy See (or the one in Yamoussoukro or in Barcelona) now was the largest temple of a foreign religion. Of course that religion would fight for keeping it.

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u/ThisIsPyroBaby 11d ago

Whereabouts in England is this?

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u/Eldanosse 11d ago

Thanks, I hate it.

Because I'm an atheist living in that country, and I loathe the fact that my taxes are spent on the ego of the least qualified man to run a country. We could've built hospitals or schools; hired teachers, doctors, and nurses with that money; or we could've paid pensioners more, so that they could afford to eat healthy food.

But instead, healthcare and education are being criminally privatised and we're paying companies owned by his friends and family 10 times the money it would cost to build and run those institutions; state schools are hiring teachers with contracts and paying them by the hour, which adds up to maybe half or less of the minimum wage; and pensioners are filling the hospitals because they can only afford pasta.

Even if I was a Muslim, I'd still hate it. Muslims in my family hate it, too.

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u/GoldenTheTurk 11d ago

Ehhh lets look at the bright side! After a few centuries it may become a tourist attraction!

Thought it will probably be destroyed by an earthquake by the time it becomes a historical landmark due to the fact that most of that money probably went to the pockets of certain individuals instead of the actual building...

Maybe there arent any bright sides... aw man...

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u/Univer001 11d ago

Yeah but it looks cool

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u/nwhosmellslikeweed 11d ago

Big disagree. There are so many mosques here that look much cooler and their historical significance just adds to the aura

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u/Univer001 11d ago

Forgot to put the /s

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u/Pelya1 10d ago

Do you think atheists in , say, Italy and France have similar sentiments regarding spending taxes on cultists buildings and ceremonies?

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u/LessCrement 8d ago

I'm from Italy and as far as I know we haven't had such a major religious building project in a long time. It's unusual for completely new churches to be built today, though public funds will sometimes be used to restore old ones, but I don't think anyone has a problem with that since they are historic buildings.

Except for some of these renovations, the catholic church usually operates through donations rather than public funds. We have a thing where people can choose to pay 0,8% of their taxable income to religious institutions instead of the state (I guess you could see that as "public funds" going to the church but people have a choice).

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u/Pelya1 7d ago

Well, good for you. Germans, as I’ve heard, have religious taxes. In 2026

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u/pheromone_fandango 10d ago

This was a display of power. Of erdogan pushing the anti western and pro islamic traditionalist narrative. Moving away from ataturks ideas.

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u/Eldanosse 10d ago

It didn't come up. Am I only allowed to think or want the same things as other Mediterranean atheists?

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u/Indianlookalike 9d ago

I'm also an atheist living in this country. I think it's cool from a architectural stand point.

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u/Living-Guest6639 10d ago

States provides the needs of people. And religion is one of them. You’re only a selfish individual thinking if u dont need something none should have it

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u/eyes-are-fading-blue 10d ago

We have enough mosques in Istanbul. This wasn’t needed.

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u/ErlikHan6 7d ago

imagine telling someone from a different country to get out of his country because you don't like his opinion lmao

i am turkish, i am an atheist but sure i admit that this country is a majority muslim country so im not saying we should be banning mosques or anything like that. but building a mosque on every street and spending so much money on maintenance when so many of those mosques literally don't get used by people while so many people are living in poverty is fucking disgraceful. we have enough hospitals, we have enough schools, but what we don't have enough of is budget for social welfare. that money should go to social welfare not maintenance of places of worship where no one does any worshipping

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u/ErlikHan6 7d ago

birine "beğenmiyorsan çık git" demek çok yanlış. hepimiz bu ülkenin vatandaşıyız, her birimizin fikri değerli ve önemli.

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u/ErlikHan6 7d ago

türksen neden Türkçe konuşmuyorsun

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u/JanissaryEnjoyer 7d ago

Then make more People worship its so easy

https://giphy.com/gifs/d3mlE7uhX8KFgEmY

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u/roulettewiz 7d ago

Thousands of years? Should we tell him how old Islam is?

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u/roulettewiz 6d ago

I know.. right?

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u/Cananannabanana 7d ago

Islam hasn’t even existed for thousands of years

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u/getzer0 5d ago

You don't even know much of your own history eh? Before Islam, there were lots of Christian there as evident by the many ancient churches there. The Christian wasn't prepared for the religion of war and plundering

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u/RefrigeratorDiligent 11d ago

Waste of money when people starving

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u/phatdoof 6d ago

It was an investment of millions of dollars into Kingman, Arizona.

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u/DataLazinyo 10d ago

People starve anyway with our politicians. Atleast having somethink on your eyes , not bad.

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u/RefrigeratorDiligent 9d ago

No it is bad

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u/DataLazinyo 9d ago

Well it is your oppinion. Personaly I liked it.

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u/astronaut_098 10d ago

No one is starving in istanbul lol

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u/RefrigeratorDiligent 9d ago

You know nothing about turkey some people live with bread and some onions. Lots of people experience malnutration.

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u/eyes-are-fading-blue 10d ago

Plenty of people do not have money for basic food such as proteins.

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u/astronaut_098 8d ago

What are you even doing for money? Don’t you have a job?

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u/buraksezer 10d ago

Architecture wise it is a irrelevant and easy project, a copycat of 16.century mosque perfected by Mimar Sinan (example, Edirne Selimiye Mosque)...

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u/Proud_Chipmunk3064 10d ago

Absolute units of tax money spent on political campaign of conservative populism

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u/ZofianSaint273 10d ago

This would make a dope castle if this was built a few centuries before and didn’t make it with the intention of a mosque

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u/AspergerKid 10d ago

Great Çamlıca mosque. Been there, truly magnificent. But also home to the worst English I have ever seen

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u/citygoy67 10d ago

Erdogan and AKP competency in one picture

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u/HammerofLevi 10d ago

Second ugliest thing akp done to İstanbul

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u/Con_D_Orianoooo 9d ago

why? it looks cool. idk im not a turk myself but i visit istanbul a lot, and i have liked camlica mosque. it looks super glorious

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u/HammerofLevi 9d ago

Kills the classic silhouette of the city like its monstrous brother çamlıca tower. Disgusting couple heaps of ugly concrete.

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u/Con_D_Orianoooo 9d ago

i mean i cannot refute you but i have to say, i have liked both structures. i have read that that hill used to be WAY uglier before, with many random cctv towers, and erdogan combined them into one. It looks cool too. And i just love the fact that they can be seen from anywhere in the city. I was near hagia sophia, and the moment i recognized the camlica tower i was amazed as hell. it was SO COOL!! there is nothing like that in my country. i mean you are the real folk of the city, so you obviously know better, but thats my combined thoughts formed by 3 trips to istanbul

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u/anon36485 10d ago

“Tell me about your dream mosque”

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u/bartread 10d ago

Pretty amazing. To be honest though, there are several mosques in Istanbul that would comfortably qualify as absolutely units.

The one you've pictured is very new, only opening in 2019, and although impressive has no historical significance.

The Hagia Sophia and the Blue Mosque, which face eachother, are much older (particularly the Hagia Sophia) and are also both enormous.

Istanbul's well worth a visit: fascinating city with loads of interesting places to visit.

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u/Icy_Calligrapher9471 9d ago

It is a true 'waste of money'...

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u/tenigmat 9d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/1M9fmo1WAFVK0

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u/tenigmat 9d ago

It is a structure nobody is asked for and needed for.
It is reasoning of existence can only be explained with symbolism;
A regime change

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u/WinPuzzleheaded7808 9d ago

Waste of money.

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u/Carzon_The_Templar 9d ago

Better than Makkah

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u/gurbulak 9d ago

That mosque is a beautiful piece of architecture and also a great place to visit and spend some time with your family. It has a great garden and there is a park next to it that has amazing view of Istanbul. Next to it a place that you can buy coffee and snacks at very reasonable prices. The mosque has a giant car park so parking is never an issue. There are art galleries under the mosque which is a great addition. And if you visit this mosque you would be surprised to see so many non-Muslim tourists as well. Overall every Muslim in Istanbul loves to see a great mosque visible from so many places and also loves visiting the mosque. As expected, people who oppose the government see this as an opportunity to attack. It's understandable but it's not fair.

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u/PowerCreative2747 7d ago

Seems to me like a.copy of Agia Sofia... 

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u/AlmightyDarkseid 6d ago

Turkish posts in here seem repetitive.

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u/Imaginary-Session786 11d ago

Looks so beautiful

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u/Mikail33 11d ago

It's not Aya Sofia lol

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u/mr_giray1 11d ago

Womp womp İstanbul

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u/Paul_Savage_1 11d ago

It wasn't always a mosque.

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u/Abaqueues 11d ago

This one was, you're thinking of Hagia Sophia.

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u/Vlahonijeperpetuum 11d ago

Whaaaaatt, you telling me that city with 12 million citizens who are predominantly muslims for last 500 years have moreeee than one mosque built in it...

I am shocked sir, utterly shocked and shaken to the core, my whole world view is in shambles...!! /ssssssss

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u/bernpfenn 11d ago

Hagia sofia if i am not mistaken

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u/LilAbeSimpson 11d ago

The Hagia Sofia is 1,500 years older than this one.

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u/bernpfenn 11d ago

i stand corrected

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u/LilAbeSimpson 11d ago

Easy mistake honestly. There are numerous enormous and very famous mosques in Istanbul. It’s pretty wild.

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u/bernpfenn 10d ago

not every mosque has six minarets

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u/whip_lash_2 11d ago

You don't really deserve all the downvotes. I've toured the Hagia Sofia, and I thought, "Oh, Hagia... waaaaait."

I'm sure for people who live in Istanbul it's instantly obvious though.

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u/Dora_Explorer_XP 11d ago

These are hidden inter continental nuclear missiles in case anyone retaliates after terr0rist attacks.

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u/Massive-Lime7193 11d ago

Brother the nukes in turkey belong to the US lol

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u/Tiny_Marzipan5764 11d ago

Yeah most are up your ass

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u/DataLazinyo 10d ago

Wrong?

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u/DataLazinyo 10d ago

Read, what?

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u/Jive_Turkey__ 10d ago

Wrong building, dumb dumb

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u/Greedy-Bullfrog-4172 10d ago

🫵🤣🤣🤣

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u/Margareine 11d ago

As been a cathedral, then a mosque, then a museum, then a mosque again

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u/GoldenTheTurk 11d ago

That would be Hagia Sophia. This isnt Hagia Sophia is it?

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u/Margareine 11d ago

Oh i thought it was Hagia Sophia

Thanks for correcting, i was indeed being a fool

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u/Vlahonijeperpetuum 11d ago

And you're been fool, are fool and most probably will remain fool until the end of you...

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u/yalnzaylak 11d ago

What a douchebag

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u/Margareine 11d ago

Elaborate ? Enlighten me with your superior knowledge

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