I didn't know that you are not allowed in mosques during prayer hours.
At least in the mosques, which are of great tourist interest, they don't let you in unless you are going to attend the prayers but you can't visit just to look around and take pics. Some mosques in Istanbul receive a huge amount of visitors every day.
I don't blame the tourists for visiting. It looks beautiful on the outside that one can't help but check out what is inside :D I haven't been to the two mosques we have here in the city. The more beautiful ones are those in the south where majority of the people practices Islam.
I don't blame them either, since I'm the first one who wants to visit them, hehe. We only have one mosque here but it is very small and I haven't been inside it.
I hope you can visit your mosque there :)
Maybe one day ;) It's small and not very eye-catching really. It only has a minaret.
Oh, I see. Even the ones we have here.