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| Architect | Sinan |
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| Location | Istanbul, Turkey map | ||||
| Date | 1551 to 1558 timeline | ||||
| Building Type | mosque, religious | ||||
| Construction System | bearing masonry | ||||
| Climate | warm temperate | ||||
| Context | urban | ||||
| Style | Ottoman Islamic | ||||
| Notes | The Suleymaniye Mosque. Domed, with four minaret towers. Hub of the kulliye, or palace complex. | ||||
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| Discussion | Suleyman Mosque Commentary
"Suleyman the magnificent ordered a mosque appropriate to his title to be built by the architect Sinan, whereupon the present mosque was begun on one of the hills dominating the Golden Horn." "The mosque, and its attendant structures, madrasa, arms—houses, infirmaries, caravansarais, a medical school, hamams, schools of Tradition, a hospital, cells and shops were begun in 1550 by the architect Sinan and completed in 1557." —Ilhan Aksit. Treasures of Istanbul. p164. "Here Sinan demonstrated his transformation of the Hagia Sophia plan from which he had drawn his inspiration: his dome is buttressed by two half-domes and two typanum walls." "Sinan's solution of putting four minarets at the corners of his arcaded courtyard (inspired by the atrium) sets up a counterpoint between a solid volume on the mosque side and a 'negative' space on the courtyard side." — Henri Stierlin. Comprende l'Architecture universelle 2. p378-9. Details Dome has a diameter of 26 meters (85 feet) and a height of 51.8 meters (170 feet). | ||||
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Sources on Suleyman Mosque
Ilhan Aksit. Treasures of Istanbul. Istanbul: Tunel, 1984. NA1370.A39 1984. discussion, p164. interior photo of main space, p165. Sir Banister Fletcher. A History of Architecture. London: The Butterworth Group, 1987. ISBN 0-408-01587-X. LC 86-31761. NA200.F63 1987. discussion, p439. photo fF, p440. — The classic text of architectural history. Expanded 1996 edition available at Amazon.com Werner Blaser and Monica Stucky. Drawings of Great Buildings. Boston: Birkhauser Verlag, 1983. ISBN 3-7643-1522-9. LC 83-15831. NA2706.U6D72 1983. plan and section drawings, p139. Francis D. K. Ching. Architecture: Form, Space, and Order. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1979. ISBN 0-442-21535-5. LC 79-18045. NA2760.C46. section, p53. — A nice graphic introduction to architectural ideas. Updated 1996 edition available at Amazon.com Spiro Kostof. A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals. Oxford University Press, 1985. ISBN 0-1950-8378-4. interior photo, p462, figure 19.11. site plan drawing, p464, figure 19.13. Available at Amazon.com Henri Stierlin. Comprende l'Architecture universelle 2. Fribourg, Switzerland: Office du Livre, 1977. discussion p378-379. Kevin Matthews. The Great Buildings Collection on CD-ROM. Artifice, 2001. ISBN 0-9667098-4-5.— Available at Amazon.com
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