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BEAUTIES OF THE BOSPHORUS.
tomb does not disturb the illusion which old associations have woven about the
fancy ; for even had its tenant been the renowned daughter of the Vezir her-
self, she could not have found a fitter resting-place. The elegant tomb-house
is hexagonal, and the fluted dome is supported on eight light and graceful
columns, whose Saracenic capitals form a portion of the sculptured cornice
which surrounds the base of the cupola. The windows are of richly stained
glass ; and the sarcophagus rests on a low platform in the centre of the marble
floor, in solitary state.
The other three tombs attached to the Mosque of Chazade, are those of three
Vezirs ; and, in two instances, their wives and sons lie beside them. A few scat-
tered graves, almost overgrown with the dense vegetation common to the country,
have been niched here and there in the recesses formed by the angles of the
buildings ; and clouds of blue doves inhabit the eaves of the temple, and fill the
air with their low monotonous note, giving a solemnity to the spot congenial to its
use. They call to each other from the roofs of the tombs sadly and soothingly,
like sentinels passing the watchword of peace over the ashes of the dead, and
seem, in their earnest melancholy, to echo the answer of the Gnome King to
the pilgrim Hamet—" Pass on thy way, and impede me not: I guard the graves
of the mighty."
SULEIMANIE.
“ -Solyman, the glory of their line."
Byron.
The Mosque of Solyman " the Magnificent," called by the Turks Suleimanie,
is esteemed the most elegant religious edifice in Constantinople. The splendid
windows of painted glass, which are said to be unequalled throughout the world,
were a spoil from the Persians, from whom they were wrested by Solyman to
decorate the temple of which he was the founder; and the effect of their
elaborately-blended rays on the marble walls of the mosque is strikingly fine
and impressive. The dome is supported by four slight and well-proportioned
pillars, and rests upon their delicate capitals so lightly, as to give a character to
the interior of this beautiful building quite distinct from that of every other
BEAUTIES OF THE BOSPHORUS.
tomb does not disturb the illusion which old associations have woven about the
fancy ; for even had its tenant been the renowned daughter of the Vezir her-
self, she could not have found a fitter resting-place. The elegant tomb-house
is hexagonal, and the fluted dome is supported on eight light and graceful
columns, whose Saracenic capitals form a portion of the sculptured cornice
which surrounds the base of the cupola. The windows are of richly stained
glass ; and the sarcophagus rests on a low platform in the centre of the marble
floor, in solitary state.
The other three tombs attached to the Mosque of Chazade, are those of three
Vezirs ; and, in two instances, their wives and sons lie beside them. A few scat-
tered graves, almost overgrown with the dense vegetation common to the country,
have been niched here and there in the recesses formed by the angles of the
buildings ; and clouds of blue doves inhabit the eaves of the temple, and fill the
air with their low monotonous note, giving a solemnity to the spot congenial to its
use. They call to each other from the roofs of the tombs sadly and soothingly,
like sentinels passing the watchword of peace over the ashes of the dead, and
seem, in their earnest melancholy, to echo the answer of the Gnome King to
the pilgrim Hamet—" Pass on thy way, and impede me not: I guard the graves
of the mighty."
SULEIMANIE.
“ -Solyman, the glory of their line."
Byron.
The Mosque of Solyman " the Magnificent," called by the Turks Suleimanie,
is esteemed the most elegant religious edifice in Constantinople. The splendid
windows of painted glass, which are said to be unequalled throughout the world,
were a spoil from the Persians, from whom they were wrested by Solyman to
decorate the temple of which he was the founder; and the effect of their
elaborately-blended rays on the marble walls of the mosque is strikingly fine
and impressive. The dome is supported by four slight and well-proportioned
pillars, and rests upon their delicate capitals so lightly, as to give a character to
the interior of this beautiful building quite distinct from that of every other