…with minarets.
Every horizon is full of them, ornate needles pricking the sky.
These belong to the New Mosque (built in the 17th century, but new for this part of Istanbul), facing the water near where the tram left me off at Eminönü.
I am a native in this world And think in it as a native thinks
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