Blue Mosque, Istanbul

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Sultan Ahmed Mosque - historic mosque located in Istanbul, Turkey, also known as Blue Mosque. This building is the 85^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of buildings and the 113^th most popular building in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Blue Mosque, Istanbul” in Simple English Wikipedia has 28.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 5 references and 2 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

The 113^th most popular in buildings in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 85^th most popular in buildings.

Since the creation of article “Blue Mosque, Istanbul”, its content was written by 18 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 2082 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Sultan Ahmed Mosque is on the 113^th place in local ranking of buildings in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 85^th place in global ranking of buildings in all the time.

The article is cited 7 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 3264 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #343 in July 2015
• Global: #1493 in May 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #2365 in February 2023
• Global: #4048 in July 2020

There are 51 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Blue Mosque, Istanbul		95.8058
2	Turkish (tr) Sultanahmet Camii		76.3327
3	Chinese (zh) 蘇丹艾哈邁德清真寺		61.8663
4	Malay (ms) Masjid Sultan Ahmed		55.9515
5	Slovenian (sl) Modra mošeja		55.0152
6	Croatian (hr) Ahmedija		44.8087
7	Hungarian (hu) Ahmed szultán mecsetje		42.4112
8	Tamil (ta) சுல்தான் அகமது பள்ளிவாசல்		39.2253
9	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Džamija sultana Ahmeta		39.0145
10	Hindi (hi) सुल्तान अहमद मस्जिद		34.2056

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Blue Mosque, Istanbul		6 478 263
2	Turkish (tr) Sultanahmet Camii		3 409 150
3	Russian (ru) Голубая мечеть (Стамбул)		1 834 990
4	German (de) Sultan-Ahmed-Moschee		1 434 381
5	Spanish (es) Mezquita Azul		1 339 220
6	French (fr) Mosquée bleue		1 139 938
7	Arabic (ar) جامع السلطان أحمد		891 977
8	Italian (it) Moschea Blu		582 616
9	Polish (pl) Błękitny Meczet		546 363
10	Japanese (ja) スルタンアフメト・モスク		406 700

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Blue Mosque, Istanbul		22 307
2	Turkish (tr) Sultanahmet Camii		7 909
3	Russian (ru) Голубая мечеть (Стамбул)		7 620
4	German (de) Sultan-Ahmed-Moschee		3 603
5	Spanish (es) Mezquita Azul		3 028
6	French (fr) Mosquée bleue		2 919
7	Italian (it) Moschea Blu		2 076
8	Polish (pl) Błękitny Meczet		1 764
9	Chinese (zh) 蘇丹艾哈邁德清真寺		1 446
10	Japanese (ja) スルタンアフメト・モスク		1 002

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Blue Mosque, Istanbul		410
2	Turkish (tr) Sultanahmet Camii		174
3	German (de) Sultan-Ahmed-Moschee		153
4	French (fr) Mosquée bleue		139
5	Italian (it) Moschea Blu		104
6	Dutch (nl) Sultan Ahmetmoskee		98
7	Russian (ru) Голубая мечеть (Стамбул)		98
8	Spanish (es) Mezquita Azul		53
9	Arabic (ar) جامع السلطان أحمد		51
10	Hungarian (hu) Ahmed szultán mecsetje		51

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) جامع السلطان أحمد		3
2	French (fr) Mosquée bleue		2
3	Turkish (tr) Sultanahmet Camii		2
4	Chinese (zh) 蘇丹艾哈邁德清真寺		2
5	Azerbaijani (az) Sultan Əhməd məscidi		1
6	Bulgarian (bg) Султан Ахмед джамия		1
7	Spanish (es) Mezquita Azul		1
8	Basque (eu) Meskita Urdina		1
9	Croatian (hr) Ahmedija		1
10	Hungarian (hu) Ahmed szultán mecsetje		1

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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