selimiye mosque
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Selimiye Mosque
Edirne, Turkey
Built in the 16th century is an Ottoman imperial mosque, which is located in the city of Edirne,
Turkey. The mosque was commissioned by Sultan Selim II, and was built by architect Mimar Sinan
between 1569 and 1575.
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1. Mosque
2. Madrasa (Hadith College)
3.
Madrasa (Koran School)
4. Elementary School
5. Bazaar
THE DOME
43,25m height and
31,25m diameter.
stands on huge
columns named “Fil Ayağı”
(can be translated as elephant
leg)
connected to each
other by arches with 6m width
Two of these legs are
next to the qibla wall
while the other legs
are in front of eastern,
northern and western walls in
groups of two
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THE MINARETS
harmonious role in the overall composition four minarets with three balconies each
All pulpits in the four minarets are plain
surfaces are adorned with perpendicular
bars so that bodies seem thinner
The balconies are adorned with grid
banisters designed in classical style of the age
MINBAR
Monolithic marble
25 stairs
Has a prism ceramics cone
Marble orbs were placed on the faces which
see the center of the Mosque of the big legs
connecting with the qibla wall niche
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INNER COURT AND FOUNTAIN
three doors lead to the fountain
All three of them are elegantly inlaid and porphyritic
epigraph above the middle door of the mosque which shows the starting and the ending dates
of the construction
18 little domes which surround the fountain court
columns were brought from Egypt, Cyprus, from around Kapıdağı Peninsula, from the ruins of
Aydıncık and Syria
white marble fountain with a sixteen-sided plan
SQUINCHES
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WINDOWS
384 windows in Selimiye Mosque different rhythms and figures
Besmele-i Şerife (a short Islamic saying) and Ayet-el
Kursi (an ayet from Bakara Sura) are written on the right and
final ayet of Fetih Sura is written on the left in ceramics
window surroundings had the same Baroque style
adorned with the longitudinal repetition of simple,
hollow, sharp and black leaves
CEILING ADORNMENTS
In the center, there is a wheel of fortune
in a square frame
sides of the wheel of fortune built only
with wooden pieces are curvilinearly sliced; wide
surfaces are adorned with red and golden foils
middle spaces completing the square are
black.
REFERENCES
1. Kiuiper, Kathleen (2009). Islamic Art, Literature, and Culture. Rosen Education Service.
pp. 201
2.
Architecture, Jonathan Glancey, page 207, 2006
3. "Selimiye Külliyesi". ArchNet.org
4. http://www.selimiyemosque.net/