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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.
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 ...
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.
This mosque would represent the pre-eminence of the Ottoman Empire. [7] The mosque was built on the site of the old Ottoman palace which was still in use at the time and had to be demolished. [8] The Arabic inscription above the entrance to prayer hall gives a foundation date of 1550 and an inauguration date of 1557. In reality, the planning of ...
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).
Hisar Mosque: 25x20 Aydınoğlu Yakup Bey 1598 Başdurak Mosque: 15x15 Hacı Hüseyin 1652 Kestanepazarı Mosque: 20x20 Ahmet Ağa 1668 Yalı Mosque: 10x10 Ayşe Hanım 1755 Salepçioğlu Mosque: 15x20 Salepçizade Hacı Ahmet Efendi 1905
The mosque's design was inspired by Classical Ottoman architecture and the works of Mimar Sinan. [2]Çamlıca Mosque front view Mosque at night. The exterior of the mosque has been described as "a huge box attached to a colonnaded courtyard; on top of the box, domes and half-domes swarm around a squat central dome surmounted by a golden, crescent-shaped finial."
The Yavuz Selim Mosque, also known as the Selim I Mosque and the Yavuz Sultan Selim Mosque (Turkish: Yavuz Selim Camii) is a 16th-century Ottoman imperial mosque located at the top of the 5th hill of Istanbul, Turkey, in the neighborhood of Çukurbostan, overlooking the Golden Horn. Its size and geographic position make it a familiar landmark ...