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Iznik tiles inside the Blue Mosque (Sultanahmet Mosque) in Istanbul. Date: 22 September 2010, 11:06: Source: Tiles from the Blue Mosque, Istanbul ... //flickr.com ...
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The mosque was divided into 3 parts, the side wall columns were connected to auxiliary rooms. The inner wall was decorated with star-shaped rivets. The images were surrounded by a double Islamic circle with a riveted border. The books on the altar were also decorated with silver rivets.
The basic design of the Şehzade Mosque, with its symmetrical dome and four semi-dome layout, proved popular with later architects and was repeated in classical Ottoman mosques after Sinan (e.g. the Sultan Ahmed I Mosque, the New Mosque at Eminönü, and the 18th-century reconstruction of the Fatih Mosque).
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.
The last important building to be decorated with tiles from Iznik was the Sultan Ahmed Mosque (Blue Mosque) in Istanbul that was completed in 1616. The ceramic collection of the Topkapı Palace includes over ten thousand pieces of Chinese porcelain but almost no Iznik pottery.