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Blue Mosque, Istanbul, Turkey, 1997

Illuminated by the setting sun, the Blue Mosque got its name from the tile covering its interior. Built for Sultan Ahmet I in the early 1600s, the mosque was the first, aside from Mecca's Kaaba shrine, with six minarets.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "City at a Crossroads," March/April 1998, National Geographic Traveler magazine)

Photograph by Steve McCurry

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