abstract:The Arasta Bazaar in Istanbul, Turkey, is a small market close to the Sultan Ahmed Mosque. It is known for its jewelry, pottery, spice, textiles, and carpet shops.
The block-long ArastaBazaar in the shadow of the Blue Mosque is also easier on the nerves and has a few particularly good shops--notably Maison du Tapis d'orient, which sells antique Central Asian tapestries (its nearby sibling, Mehmet Cetinkaya Gallery, has exquisite carpets and ceramics), and the Iznik Foundation shop, which retails reproductions of classic 15th- and 16th-century Ottoman ceramics.