Yivli Minare Mosque, Antalya, Turkey

Fluted minaret or Yivli Minare of the Alaaddin Mosque or Yivli Minare Mosque, originally built by the Anatolian Seljuk Sultan Alaaddin Keykubad I in the 13th century, then rebuilt in 1373 by the Hamidids, in the old town of Antalya, on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey. Since 1974 the mosque has housed the Antalya Ethnographic Museum. Antalya was founded c. 150 BC in Hellenistic times, and then thrived under the Romans from 133 BC. It subsequently was populated by the Seljuks, the Ottomans and the Italians before becoming Turkish. This Turkish Riviera town now thrives on tourism. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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