- Take off your shoes at the etrance and put them in the shelf.
- Covering is important. The suitable clothes are long skirt and scarf for ladies, trousers (not shorts) for men.
- Don’t talk and laugh loudly.
- Never walk in front of a praying muslim.
- If it is namaz time (5 times a day), wait for the end of namaz before you enter.

Those are general rules. There may be some different rules according to the mosque. For example some of them don’t allow taking photographs, some of them only allow it without flash.

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How to get from Sabiha Gokcen Airport to Sultanahmet or Taksim?

- Airport Bus: There’s airport bus provided by Havas taking you to Taksim Square. Price is reasonable. Duration is about an hour.

- Public Transport: Take the bus E10 to Kadikoy. It takes about 1 hour. Take the ferry from Kadikoy to Eminonu. Ferry ride is enjoyable. You don’t get bored. Sultanahmet is just 20 minutes walk from Eminonu. You can follow the tourists walking to Sultanahmet. In the daytime you can both find bus and ferry quite easily. To go to Taksim take the ferry to Karakoy. There you can find a lot of city buses going to Taksim area.

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Walk about 500 meters from Abdi Ipekci Arena to Kazlicesme train station and get off at Cankurtaran stop. It’s just ten minutes walk to Sultanahmet. However, you should keep in your mind that there’s no public transport after midnight. So you can take a look at train schedules here and here. You should plan your outside activities considering the schedules.

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By public transport:

If you are in Taksim square, take the metro from Taksim to Kabatas and you can get to Sultanahmet from Kabatas by tram. If you are at the other side of Istiklal take the little metro (calles as “tunel”). It takes you to Karakoy. You can take the tram from Karakoy to Zeytinburnu direction and get off when it arrives to Sultanahmet. These won’t take much time. However, there is an alternative way;

By taxi:

You can take a taxi, that will cost higher. It’s the best way to use public transport during commute hours as the traffic is very crowded at that time.

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In Ramadan there are a lot of Turks fast. But there are also a lot, who don’t fast. Refraining from eating and drinking in public would be the best during the day time. However, it’s really related to where you are as Istanbul is a very big city. Considering that you will be around touristic places like Taksim, Beyoğlu, The Grand Bazaar, you will not even notice Ramadan has started as you will see a lot of people in the restaurants during the day time. Some of them are tourists, and the others are Turks. Most of cafes, tea houses will also be open. So this issue won’t be such a big problem for you.

In addition, there is one thing you should consider about: Having dinner around fast breaking time may be little problem as most restaurants will be very crowded and it will be hard to find seats.

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