Threshold to the Sacred

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Figure 15.

The Sultan Ahmet mosque or the Blue Mosque, Istanbul, Turkey (1616)

“In the evening suspends a luminous ceiling over the heads of the faithful; within the encircling band of windows now dimmed, never-ending wires climb toward the top of the dome and disappear in the obscurity of that immense space.�5 8

- Le Corbusier


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