The Great Mosque of Harran

Some overview shots of the Great Mosque (Ulu Camii) in Harran - more detailed ones to come.
Harran is historically a city looking southward to the Arab world and was early a center of Islamic knowledge and science. The mosque is an Ummayad structure from the mid-8th century and the sheer size of it is amazing. The minaret is slightly over 33 meters high.

Harran was also a center of pre-Islamic knowledge and religion, peopled by a sort of moon-worshippers called Sabaeans (as I understand it), which lived on into later ages by being acknowledged as a people of the Book.

Some other photo galleries on the web with Harran pictures: here and here (at least the second one has a much larger range of Turkey images also).