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Outer and inner walls are paneled with an extremely rare type of marble – adarce. The interior of the mosque is decorated with white marble quarried on Marmara Adasi island in the Marble Sea.
The mosque was painted by Turkish masters. Synthetic and natural paints with special additives were used for figured ornaments. Due to this, the mosque, specialists say, is supposed to preserve the present colors for 50 years. For painting the ornaments and texts of the Koran, artists used a dusting of the finest quality.
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