The Blue Mosque’s actual name is the Sultan Ahmet Mosque, in honor of its benefactor. To design it, Sultan Ahmet hired famous Ottoman architect Mehmet Aga — the same guy who built the Kaaba, the holiest shrine in Islam at the center of Mecca’s mosque. In this photo, we could only squeeze in four of the six minarets. The mosque also has five main domes and eight secondary domes. With its color scheme and “pointy towers,” it looks a bit like an arabic version of Disneyland’s castle.
