Was told that the only reason why our Polish tour party stopped off in Babadag (where we saw the mosque above) was that the town is mentioned in some obscure Polish novel.
Still, the mosque looked interesting from the outside:
And it certainly had an eye-catching, wooden ceiling:
And in the mosque grounds, there were some interesting-looking, smaller buildings:
And some beautiful flowers:
Inside the mosque, it was the lights on the ceiling which mainly caught my eye:
And like the other few mosques I've visited, most notably the big ones in Istanbul (Constantinople), this one had a plush-looking carpet:
Don't visit many mosques, but when the local Muhammadans are friendly enough, I don't passover the opportunity to have a look round inside.
Just read that the Babadag mosque here was built in the 16th century, although restoration work had to be done after a fire damaged it in the late 19th century, and some things have been modified since then.
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