The platoon, preparing for a mission to clear a route, halted in front of a blue mosque.

This tradition was adopted centuries later by the blue mosques of Persia.

In the 17th century its ruins were used as a quarry for the building of the Blue Mosque (see page 41).

"here" was a safe house, an apartment overlooking the blue mosque, warm and stocked with whisky.

The tilework is a unique feature of the blue mosques of .

A small group of soldiers, officials and Khalq activists withdrew into the city's Blue Mosque.

Significantly, he decorated the building with blue and green tiles, hence the mosque's unofficial name as the "Blue Mosque".

Next was the 17th-century Blue Mosque, which didn't look particularly blue from the outside, but whose interior walls are lined with some 20,000 mostly blue tiles.

Johnnie Stephens had been to Persia and was enthusiastic about it, going on and on about the blue mosques and the long light.

A suicide bomber in northern Mazar-i-Sharif died when he set off an explosion outside the shrine of Hazrat Ali, the famed blue mosque.