suleymaniye mosque complex

SULEYMANIYE MOSQUE COMPLEX

NEIL JUDE T. VALENCIA

• LOCATED IN SULEYMANIYE, ISTANBUL, TURKEY• BUILT IN 16TH CENTURY• COMMISIONED BY SULTAN SÜLEYMAN, THE

MAGNIFICENT • DESIGNED BY ARCHITECT MIMAR SINAN• MODELED IN PART ON THE STYLE OF A BYZANTINE

BASILICA

(1) mosque, (2) mausoleum of Süleyman, (3) mausoleum of Hürrem, (4) Koran recitation school, (5) public fountain, (6) elementary school, (7) first (evvel) madrasa, (8) second (sani) madrasa, (9) remains of medical school, (10) hospital, (11) hospice, (12) guesthouse, (13) Sinan's tomb with domed sabil and empty plot of his endowed school and residence, (14) the janissary agha's residence, (15) third (salis) madrasa, (16) fourth (rabi) madrasa, (17) bathhouse, (18) hadith college, (19) madrasa near the palace of Fatma Sultan and Siyavus Pasa

IWAN

COURTYARD

Covered portico around mosque courtyard

MINARET

MOSQUE

• Constructed on 1550 and finished on 1557

• 59 meters in length and 58 meters in width

• with 4 minarets, having a total of 10 galleries indicating that Suleiman I was the 10th Ottoman sultan

PLAN AND SECTION

INTERIORS

DOME

POLYCHROME ARCH

STAINED GLASS WINDOW

HONEYCOMB ORNAMENTATION

MARBLE COLUMNS

MAUSOLEUM OF SULTAN SULEYMAN

INTERIOR OF THE MAUSOLEUM OF EMPEROR SULEYMAN

MAUSOLEUM OF HURREM( WIFE OF SULEYMAN)

INTERIOR OF THE MAUSOLEUM OF SULTAN SULEYMAN

MADRASAH

TOMB OF SINAN, WITH SABIL AT CORNER

VIEW OF STREET WALL, WITH GRILL WINDOW BEFORE SINAN'S TOMB

HADITH COLLEGE

BATH HOUSE(HAMMAM)

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