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The area sloping down to the river behind the bazaar is known as EMINONU , adjacent to which lies SIRKECI , home to the main train station and ferry docks. Close by, on the waterfront, is the last of Istanbul's imperial mosques to be built in the Classical era, Yeni Camii . A large, grey edifice, it's one of the least impressive of the city centre's mosques, partly owing to the heavy layer of soot which covers its walls and windows. Next door, the Misir Carsisi (Egyptian Bazaar), also known as the Spice Bazaar, sells everything from saffron to aphrodisiacs. A short walk west, the Rustem Pasa Camii is one of the most attractive of Istanbul's smaller mosques, built for Suleyman the Magnificent's grand vizier, Rustem Pasa. Designed by Sinan on a particularly awkward site, above a tangle of streets that seems to offer no room for such a building, it is barely detectable as you wander about in the streets below. But it's a successful, dramatic structure, with tiles that are among the most profuse in Turkey, from the finest period of Iznik tile production. On the waterfront, the most prominent landmark is the Galata Bridge , a modern two-tier structure which provides access to Galata (and 1.5km beyond, Taksim) on the opposite side of the Golden Horn.
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