Laylat al-Qadr is a sacred night in the Islamic faith, believed to be the night on which the Holy Quran began to be revealed to the Prophet Muhammad, and is regarded as ‘better than a thousand months’. Observed during the final days of Ramadan, this night is spent by Muslims in prayer and worship. On the night of 16 March leading into 17 March, citizens gathered at the Sultanahmet Mosque in Istanbul to mark Laylat al-Qadr; following an iftar meal in the mosque square, they spent the night in prayer within