Quiet Prayer

Here's a nice shot from inside the Suleymaniye Mosque in Istanbul.  It is a very beautiful mosque, which dates back to the reign of Suleyman the Magnificent (so it is not nearly as old as the Hagia Sophia).  What I like about it is the shot of the one peson who came in to pray in the middle of the day.  We tend to think of mosques as very busy places with hundreds if not thousands of worshippers praying at once in a very ritualized fashion, but here's the other side of the story. 

While I really should not have snapped his picture, I wanted to capture a bit of the serenity of the moment and share it with an audience which all too often has a very different view of Islam.