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Before You Die: Five Hundred Mosques by Tom Brosnahan
Steam through the Sea of Marmara in late afternoon, headed for Istanbul. As the soaring domes of the great imperial mosques come into view, round Seraglio Point to see the sun setting into the Golden Horn as the call to prayer rises from the minarets of 500 mosques. Tom Brosnahan
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