Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
This page was last edited on 8 December 2024, at 02:39 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.
This page was last edited on 8 December 2024, at 02:35 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.
Other mosques, such as Muradiye, Old Mosque and the Sultan Beyezid II Complex, adorn the city skyline, while a series of bridges over the Tunca also hark back to Ottoman times, and provide a base ...
Istanbul, as the capital of the Ottoman Empire since 1453 and the largest city in the Middle East, contains a great number of mosques. In 2007, there were 2,944 active mosques in Istanbul. In 2007, there were 2,944 active mosques in Istanbul.
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 ...
The mosque was built by the Ottoman ruler Orhan (known as Orhan Gazi) and is dated to 1339–40 AD (740 AH), [2] [3] as attested by a surviving Arabic inscription over the gate. [2] The mosque was damaged by fire during the siege of Bursa by the Karamanid ruler Mehmed II in 1413, with front façade and portico being destroyed. [3]
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).