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THE PARIS EXHIBITION. 229
CHAPTER XXII.
THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE AND ROUMANIA.
Wishing to initiate us into their manner of living, the Turks
have constructed in the Park a mosque, a bath, and a kiosque,
thus illustrating the three chief occupations of Eastern life,
prayer, ablutions, and kief.
The mosque is a reduced copy of the green mosque, Y'echild-
jami, constructed at Broussa by Mohammed I., in the year
I412 of our era. After having passed through the vestibule,
where the faithful deposit their shoes, we come to a nave
wherein the light pours through the apertures of an elegant
minaret; at the end rises the mihrab, placed to indicate the
direction of Mecca, towards which Mussulmen bend in adora-
tion ; on the right is a kind of pulpit (mimber), where the
Iman recites verses of the Koran.
On either side of the vestibule are two small rooms, one
containing the fountain for ablutions (Zebil), and the other,
the clock indicating the legal hour of the five daily prayers.
The Turkish bath is now too well known in this country
to render it necessary to explain in which way one is stewed
by degrees until perfectly cooked.
The kiosque is a charming pavilion, such as one frequently
sees on the banks of the Bosphorus. The interior is lined
with softly padded and richly covered sofas ; in the centre a
CHAPTER XXII.
THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE AND ROUMANIA.
Wishing to initiate us into their manner of living, the Turks
have constructed in the Park a mosque, a bath, and a kiosque,
thus illustrating the three chief occupations of Eastern life,
prayer, ablutions, and kief.
The mosque is a reduced copy of the green mosque, Y'echild-
jami, constructed at Broussa by Mohammed I., in the year
I412 of our era. After having passed through the vestibule,
where the faithful deposit their shoes, we come to a nave
wherein the light pours through the apertures of an elegant
minaret; at the end rises the mihrab, placed to indicate the
direction of Mecca, towards which Mussulmen bend in adora-
tion ; on the right is a kind of pulpit (mimber), where the
Iman recites verses of the Koran.
On either side of the vestibule are two small rooms, one
containing the fountain for ablutions (Zebil), and the other,
the clock indicating the legal hour of the five daily prayers.
The Turkish bath is now too well known in this country
to render it necessary to explain in which way one is stewed
by degrees until perfectly cooked.
The kiosque is a charming pavilion, such as one frequently
sees on the banks of the Bosphorus. The interior is lined
with softly padded and richly covered sofas ; in the centre a