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| Keywords: IstanbulSultan Boat Mosque.jpg Photograph of the selamlik ceremony of the Ottoman Sultan's Friday prayer in the Ottoman Capital of Istanbul Constantinople A rare occasion for his citizens and visiting westerners to catch a glimpse of the secluded Monarch and Khalife From this capital he ruled over an extensive though slowly shrinking and discontented empire in Asia that included Syria Aleppo Damascus Mont-Liban Palestine Jordan Mesopotamia The Hejaz Yemen and officially Egypt and north Africa He Sultan Abdülaziz went by Imperial Kayik boat to the Ortaköy camii mosque on the Bosphorus built by Nikolos of the Armenian architectural dynasty of the Balians in 1853-4 on the Bosphorus The oars worked in perfect unison dipping and rising as one single pair Along the banks of the Bosphorus bands played troops presented arms and people made low reverences The Sultan the city and the sea united to celebrate God and the empire CONSTANTINOPLE Philip Mansel 1995 http //mideastimage com/result aspx century 19 author PD-Old Ortaköy Mosque | ||||
