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The list below contains some of the most important mosques in modern-day Turkey that were commissioned by the members of Ottoman imperial family.Some of these major mosques are also known as a selatin mosque, imperial mosque, [1] or sultanic mosque, meaning a mosque commissioned in the name of the sultan and, in theory, commemorating a military triumph.
The Blue Mosque, officially the Sultan Ahmed Mosque (Turkish: Sultan Ahmet Camii), is an Ottoman-era historical imperial mosque located in Istanbul, Turkey.It was constructed between 1609 and 1617 during the rule of Ahmed I and remains a functioning mosque today.
Other Ottoman Mosques. Kemeralti (18th century) Sadirvan (1636) Fazıl Ahmet Pasa (Balık Pazarı) (17th century) (destroyed in 1922 fire)
On the site of the present-day Ortaköy Mosque there was previously a small mosque built in 1720 and ruined during the Patrona Halil Uprising in 1731. [2] The current mosque was commissioned by the Ottoman sultan Abdülmecid I and built or completed around 1854 or 1856 (the exact dates of construction vary between scholarly sources).
Cemetery behind the Süleymaniye Mosque in Istanbul. Ottoman cemeteries were also gardens and were often established next to mosques. Large Ottoman küllliye complexes, which consisted of a mosque with other charitable and religious buildings around it, were often set inside an outer enclosure. The grounds and common spaces of these enclosures ...
17th-century mosques in the Ottoman Empire (13 P) This page was last edited on 8 December 2024, at 02:39 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
The New Mosque (Turkish: Yeni Cami, pronounced [jeni dʒami], originally named the Valide Sultan Mosque, Turkish: Valide Sultan Camii) and later New Valide Sultan Mosque (Turkish: Yeni Valide Sultan Camii) after its partial reconstruction and completion between 1660 and 1665, is an Ottoman imperial mosque located in the Eminönü quarter of Istanbul, Turkey.
Largest Ottoman dome. 26 85.3 Fatih Mosque, Istanbul: Istanbul: 1470 26 85.3 Süleymaniye Mosque: Istanbul: 1558 25 82.0 Nuruosmaniye Mosque: Istanbul: 1755 24.5 80.4 Yavuz Selim Mosque: Istanbul: 1522 24 78.7 Üç Şerefeli Mosque: Edirne: 1447 23.5 77.1 Sultan Ahmed Mosque: Istanbul: 1616 20 65.6 Mihrimah Mosque: Istanbul: 1565 19 62.3 ...