Template:Did you know nominations/Balaban Aga Mosque

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The following discussion is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by BlueMoonset (talk) 03:37, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

Balaban Aga Mosque

The exterior of the mosque in 1903

Created/expanded by Alessandro57 (talk). Self nom at 06:28, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

  • New enough, long enough, and properly cited (offline refs accepted AGF), but I feel the hook could be made more interesting. How about
ALT1: ... that the Balaban Aga Mosque in Istanbul (pictured), built in the Byzantine era, was demolished in 1930 because it stood in the way of a new road?
Symbol redirect vote 4.svg I think that both are ok. If you like more the second, let's go for it. Thanks! Alex2006 (talk) 06:11, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
Pictogram voting keep.svg Let's go with ALT1 then, so striking out original hook. Good to go. --Zanhe (talk) 00:34, 6 May 2012 (UTC)