Mosques commissioned by the Ottoman dynasty
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The list below contains some of the most important mosques in modern-day Turkey that were commissioned by the members of Ottoman imperial family.
The table[]
In the table below the first column shows the name, the second column shows the location, the third column shows the commissioner, the fourth column shows the architect and the fifth column shows the duration of construction.
Name | Location | Commissioner | Architect | Years |
---|---|---|---|---|
Hüdavendigar Mosque | Bursa | Murad I | 1365–1385 | |
Beyazıt I Mosque | Bursa | Bayezid I | 1391–1395 | |
Bursa Grand Mosque | Bursa | Bayezid I | 1396–1400 | |
Eski Mosque (Old Mosque) | Edirne | Süleyman Çelebi[a] Mehmet I |
Haci Alaeddin Ömer İbrahim |
1402–1414 |
Yeşil Mosque (Green Mosque) | Bursa | Mehmet I | Hacı İvaz | 1419–1421 |
Muradiye Complex[b] | Bursa | Murat II | 1426 | |
Edirne | Murat II | 1435 | ||
Muradiye Mosque | Edirne | Murat II | 1435–36 | |
Üç Şerefeli Mosque | Edirne | Murat II | 1438–1447 | |
Eyüp Sultan Mosque[c] | İstanbul | Mehmet II | 1458 | |
Fatih Mosque | İstanbul | Mehmed II | Atik Sinan | 1463–1471 |
Bayezid Complex | Edirne | Bayezid II | Hayrettin | 1484–1488 |
Bayezid Complex | Amasya | Şehzade Ahmet[d] | 1486 | |
Bayezid II Mosque | İstanbul | Bayezid II | Yakup | 1501–1506 |
[e] | Trabzon | Selim I | ?–1514 | |
Yavuz Selim Mosque | İstanbul | Selim I-Süleyman I | Alaüddin (Acem Alisi) | 1520/21–1527/8[1] |
Sultan Mosque (Manisa) | Manisa | Hafsa Sultan[f] | 1522 | |
İstanbul | Şah Sultan[g] | Mimar Sinan | 1533 | |
Haseki Sultan Mosque | İstanbul | Hürrem Sultan[h] | Mimar Sinan | 1538–1539, complex completed 1551, expanded 1612–13[2] |
Şehzade Mosque[i] | İstanbul | Süleyman I | Mimar Sinan | 1543–1548[3] |
Mihrimah Sultan Mosque (Üsküdar) | İstanbul (Üsküdar) | Mihrimah Sultan[j] | Mimar Sinan | 1543/4–1548[4] |
Süleymaniye Mosque | İstanbul | Süleyman I | Mimar Sinan | 1548–1559[5] |
Tekkiye Mosque | Damascus | Süleyman I | Mimar Sinan | 1559 |
Rüstem Pasha Mosque | İstanbul | Rüstem Pasha[k] | Mimar Sinan | 1561–1563 |
Mihrimah Sultan Mosque (Edirnekapı)[l] | İstanbul (Edirnekapı) | Mihrimah Sultan | Mimar Sinan | c. 1563–1570[6] |
Sokollu Mehmet Pasha Mosque | İstanbul (Kadırga) | Ismihan Sultan[m] | Mimar Sinan | c. 1556/68-1571/72[7] |
Selimiye Mosque | Edirne | Selim II | Mimar Sinan | 1568–1574[8] |
Selimiye Mosque | Karapınar | Selim II | Mimar Sinan | 1563[1] |
Selimiye Mosque | Konya | Selim II | Mimar Sinan (?) | 1570[2] |
Atik Valide Camii (Old Valide Mosque) | İstanbul (Üsküdar) | Nurbanu Sultan[n] | Mimar Sinan | 1571–1583, expanded 1584–85/86[9] |
Muradiye Mosque | Manisa | Murat III | Mimar Sinan | 1583–1586/87, complex completed 1590[10] |
Yeni Camii (New Mosque) | İstanbul (Eminönü) | Safiye Sultan[o] |
|
1597–1665 |
Sultan Ahmet Mosque (Blue Mosque) | İstanbul | Ahmet I | 1609–1616 | |
İstanbul (Üsküdar) | Kösem Sultan | Koca Kasım Ağa | 1638–1640 | |
Yeni Valide Camii (New Valide Mosque) | İstanbul (Üsküdar) | Gülnuş Sultan[q] | 1708–1710 | |
Nuruosmaniye Mosque | İstanbul | Mahmut I Osman III |
Mustafa Ağa Simon Kalfa |
1749–1755 |
Lâleli Mosque | İstanbul | Mustafa III | 1760–1783 | |
İstanbul | Mustafa III | 1763 | ||
Zeynep Sultan Mosque | İstanbul | Zeynep Sultan[r] | 1769 | |
İstanbul | Abdülhamit I | Mehmet Tahir Ağa | 1777–1778 | |
Teşvikiye Mosque | İstanbul | Selim III Abdülmecit I |
1794–1854 | |
Selimiye Mosque | İstanbul | Selim III | 1805 | |
Nusretiye Mosque | İstanbul | Mahmut II | Krikor Balyan | 1823–1826 |
Hırka'i Şerif Mosque[s] | İstanbul | Abdülmecit I | 1847–1851 | |
Dolmabahçe Mosque | İstanbul | Abdülmecit I - Bezmiâlem Sultan[t] | Garabet Balyan | 1853–1855 |
Ortaköy Mosque | İstanbul | Abdülmecit I | Garabet Balyan Nigoğayos Balyan |
1854–1856 |
Pertevniyal Mosque | İstanbul | Pertevniyal Sultan[u] | Montani | 1869–1871 |
Aziziye Mosque (Konya) | Konya | Pertevniyal Sultan | 1872-1874 | |
Yıldız Hamidiye Mosque | İstanbul | Abdülhamit II | Sarkis Balyan | 1884–1886 |
Mosques on the hills of Istanbul[]
Among those mosques in Istanbul some of them have been built on the traditional seven hills of the city. (The numbers refer to the number of the hill.)
- Sultan Ahmed Mosque
- Nuruosmaniye Mosque
- Bayezid II Mosque
- Fatih Mosque
- Yavuz Selim Mosque
- Mihrimah Sultan Mosque
Selâtin mosques[]
Selâtin mosques, (Selâtin means in Arabic "Sultans") by the usual definition, are mosques commissioned by a sultan who personally led a military campaign. They are large mosques with several minarets. Fatih and Süleymaniye are typical examples. However, this definition does not exactly cover the concept. Beginning by the 17th century, most sultans preferred to stay in the capital rather than campaigning. Ahmet I (reigned 1603–1617), who was a non-campaigning sultan, commissioned the Blue Mosques, one of the greatest mosques which had 6 minarets. This mosque is also considered a selâtin mosque.
Most of the mosques were commissioned by the sultans. But some mosques were commissioned by the other members of the dynasty; usually the mothers of sultans.
At the inauguration of the Mimar Sinan Mosque in 2012, then prime-minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan declared it to be a selâtin mosque.[11]
Notes[]
- ^ Süleyman Çelebi: A contestant of throne during Ottoman Interregnum
- ^ Turkish: Külliye
- ^ Dedicated to Abu Ayyub al-Ansari, one of the earliest followers of Prophet who died during Arabic campaign to İstanbul
- ^ Bayezid's son (when he was a sanjak ruler)
- ^ Dedicated to Selim's mother Gülbahar Hatun
- ^ Hafsa: Mother of Süleyman I
- ^ Şah: Daughter of Selim I and Ayşe Hatun
- ^ Hürrem: Mother of Selim II
- ^ Dedicated to Süleyman's son Şehzade Mehmed who died young
- ^ Mihrimah: Daughter of Süleyman I and Hürrem Sultan
- ^ Rüstem: Husband of Mihrimah Sultan, son-in-law of Süleyman I and Hürrem Sultan
- ^ She commissioned two mosques, the first on the Asiatic and the second on the European sides of the Bosphorous
- ^ Ismihan: Daughter of Selim II and Nurbanu Sultan, wife of grand vizier Sokollu Mehmed Pasha
- ^ Nurbanu: Mother of Murat III
- ^ Safiye: Mother of Mehmet III
- ^ Turhan Hatice: Mother of Mehmet IV
- ^ Gülnuş: Mother of Ahmet III
- ^ Zeynep: Daughter of Ahmet III
- ^ Holy Mantle is kept in this mosque
- ^ Bezmialem: Mother of Abdülmecit
- ^ Pertevniyal: Mother of Abdülaziz
References[]
- ^ Necipoğlu 2005, pp. 93–94.
- ^ Necipoğlu 2005, pp. 268–272.
- ^ Necipoğlu 2005, pp. 191–207.
- ^ Necipoğlu 2005, pp. 301–305.
- ^ Necipoğlu 2005, pp. 222–230.
- ^ Necipoğlu 2005, pp. 305–314.
- ^ Necipoğlu 2005, pp. 335–339.
- ^ Necipoğlu 2005, pp. 238–256.
- ^ Necipoğlu 2005, pp. 280–293.
- ^ Necipoğlu 2005, pp. 257–265.
- ^ Batuman, Bülent (22 December 2017). New Islamist Architecture and Urbanism: Negotiating Nation and Islam through Built Environment in Turkey. Routledge. pp. 56–58. ISBN 978-1-317-35800-8.
Bibliography[]
- Necipoğlu, Gülru (2005). The Age of Sinan: Architectural Culture in the Ottoman Empire. London: Reaktion Books. ISBN 978-1-86189-253-9.
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