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Eyüp Sultan Mosque, located in Istanbul's Eyüp district, is one of the city’s most sacred Islamic sites. Built in 1458 by Sultan Mehmed II, it marks the burial place of Abu Ayyub al-Ansari, a companion of Prophet Muhammad who died during the first Arab siege of Constantinople in the 670s.
The current mosque, rebuilt in 1800 after earthquake damage, reflects classical Ottoman architecture with later Baroque decorative elements. The complex includes a mausoleum, minarets, and is surrounded by the tombs of many notable Ottoman figures.
The mosque played a key role in Ottoman coronation rituals, where sultans were girded with the Sword of Osman. It remains a major pilgrimage site and a popular spot for Ramadan iftar meals and circumcision ceremonies.
References:The Pilgrimage Church of Wies (Wieskirche) is an oval rococo church, designed in the late 1740s by Dominikus Zimmermann. It is located in the foothills of the Alps in the municipality of Steingaden.
The sanctuary of Wies is a pilgrimage church extraordinarily well-preserved in the beautiful setting of an Alpine valley, and is a perfect masterpiece of Rococo art and creative genius, as well as an exceptional testimony to a civilization that has disappeared.
The hamlet of Wies, in 1738, is said to have been the setting of a miracle in which tears were seen on a simple wooden figure of Christ mounted on a column that was no longer venerated by the Premonstratensian monks of the Abbey. A wooden chapel constructed in the fields housed the miraculous statue for some time. However, pilgrims from Germany, Austria, Bohemia, and even Italy became so numerous that the Abbot of the Premonstratensians of Steingaden decided to construct a splendid sanctuary.