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Süleymaniye Mosque which Mimar Sinan considered his most important work. This is a list of the Friday mosques for which the Ottoman architect Mimar Sinan claimed responsibility in his autobiographies. Of the 77 mosques in the list, 39 are in Istanbul.
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.
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 Juma Mosque (Turkish: Yeni Cuma Camii) is a mosque in Trabzon, Turkey. It was built during Byzantine times as the Hagios Eugenios Church, dedicated to Saint Eugenius, the patron saint of the city. Following the capture of the city by Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror in 1461, like many churches in that city it was converted to a mosque.
The mosque complex was commissioned by Haseki Hürrem Sultan, the wife of the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. She had married the sultan around 1534 and probably used her dowry to finance the project. [1] The buildings were designed by the architect Mimar Sinan. It was his first imperial project and it is possible that some elements ...
The mosque's chief architect, Idris Yunusov, combined the Ottoman and European Baroque styles, also known as the Ottoman Baroque, to create a distinctive architectural style for the mosque. The tulip is a significant symbol in the design of the mosque, with the tulip style being a common feature in Ottoman architecture .
This is a list of Turkish Grand Mosques or Ulucami, a title originally given to the grandest Friday mosque of a Turkish city where local citizens traditionally gathered en masse for Friday Prayers, [1] though today it is common for Muslims in a single city to gather in several different mosques for these prayers.
The Süleymaniye Mosque (Turkish: Süleymaniye Camii, pronounced [sylejˈmaːnije]) is an Ottoman imperial mosque located on the Third Hill of Istanbul, Turkey. The mosque was commissioned by Suleiman the Magnificent (r. 1520–1566) and designed by the imperial architect Mimar Sinan. An inscription specifies the foundation date as 1550 and the ...