Istanbul: Places
Photos & Words: Salina Christmas

Interlace, ropes and braid that make the geometrical patterns so common in Islamic art.

As mentioned before, the repetitive patterns symbolise "no beginning and no end".

If you put your Math hat on, you will see that all of the patterns grew from one point. A dot in the middle of a circle. Again, this is a symbol of God being the center of the universe. All the other shapes flourished around this focal point.