- Mosques commissioned by the Ottoman dynasty
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The list below contains the mosques in modern-day Turkey that were commissioned by the members of Ottoman imperial family.
Contents
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 Beyazıt I Mosque Bursa Bayezid I 1391–1395 Bursa Grand Mosque Bursa Bayezid I 1396–1400 Eski Mosque (Old Mosque) Edirne Süleyman Çelebi [1]- Mehmet I
Haci Alaeddin, Ömer İbrahim
1402–1414 Yeşil Mosque (Green Mosque) Bursa Mehmet I Hacı İvaz 1419–1421 Muradiye Complex[2] Bursa Murat II 1426 Darül Hadis Mosque Edirne Murat II 1435 Üç Şerefeli Mosque Edirne Murat II 1438–1447 Eyüp Sultan Mosque[3] İstanbul Mehmet II 1458 Fatih Mosque İstanbul Mehmed II Atik Sinan 1463–1471 Beyazıt Complex Edirne Bayezid II Hayrettin 1484–1488 Beyazit Complex Amasya Şehzade Ahmet [4] 1486 Beyazıt II Mosque İstanbul Bayezid II Yakup 1501–1506 Gülbahar Hatun Mosque[5] Trabzon Selim I ?-1514 Yavuz Selim Mosque İstanbul Selim I Ali (?) 1519–1522 Sultan Mosque (Manisa) [6] Manisa Suleyman I 1522 Şehzade Mosque[7] İstanbul Süleyman I Mimar Sinan 1543–1547 Mihrimah Sultan İskele Mosque ( Üsküdar ) İstanbul Mihrimah Sultana [8] Mimar Sinan 1546–1548 Süleymaniye Mosque İstanbul Süleyman I Mimar Sinan 1550–1557 Mihrimah Sultan Mosque ( Edirnekapı ) [9] İstanbul Mihrimah Sultana Mimar Sinan 1562–1565 Selimiye Mosque Edirne Selim II Mimar Sinan 1568–1574 Atik Valide Camii ( The Old Valide Mosque ) in Üsküdar
İstanbul Nurbanu[10] Mimar Sinan 1583 Muradiye Mosque Manisa Murat III Mimar Sinan 1583–1585 Yeni Camii ( The New Mosque ) in Eminönü
İstanbul Safiye Sultan [11] Mimar Davut Ağa, Mustafa Ağa,
Dalgıç Ahmed Çavuş
1597–1665 Sultan Ahmet Mosque (Blue Mosque) İstanbul Ahmet I Sedefkar Mehmed Agha 1609–1616 Yeni Valide Camii ( The New Valide Mosque ) in Üsküdar
İstanbul Emetullah Râbi'a Gülnûş Sultan [13] Hazerfan Mehmet 1708–1710 Nuruosmaniye Mosque İstanbul Mahmut I - Mustafa Ağa, Simon Kalfa
1749–1755 Lâleli Mosque İstanbul Mustafa III Mehmet Tahir Ağa 1760–1783 Sultan Mustafa Mosque İstanbul Mustafa III 1763 Zeynep Sultan Mosque İstanbul Zeynep Sultan [14] Mehmet Tahir Ağa 1769 Beylerbeyi Mosque İstanbul Abdülhamit I Mehmet Tahir Ağa 1777–1778 Teşvikiye Mosque İstanbul Selim III - Abdülmecit I
1794–1854 Nusretiye Mosque İstanbul Mahmut II Krikor Balyan 1823–1826 Hırka'i Şerif Mosque[15] İstanbul Abdülmecit I 1847–1851 Dolmabahçe Mosque İstanbul Abdülmecit I - Garabet Balyan 1853–1855 Ortaköy Mosque İstanbul Abdülmecit I Garabet Balyan, 1854–1856 Pertevniyal Mosque İstanbul Pertevniyal[17] Montani 1869–1871 Yıldız Hamidiye Mosque İstanbul Abdülhamit II Sarkis Balyan 1884–1886 Mosques on the hills of İstanbul
Among those mosques in İstanbul some them had been built on the traditional hills of the city. (The numbers refer to the number of the hill.)
- Sultan Ahmet Mosque
- Nurosmaniye Mosque
- Beyazıt II Mosque-Şehzade Mosque
- Fatih Mosque
- Yavuz Selim Mosque
- Mihrimah Sultan Mosque
Selâtin mosques
Selâtin mosques, 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 one of the greatest mosques, which had 6 minarets (Blue Mosque). This mosque is also considered a selâtin mosque.
Notes
Most of the mosques were commissioned by the sultans. But some mosques were commissioned by the other members of the dynasty; usually the mother sultans.
- ^ 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
- ^ Beyazıt's son (when he was a sanjak ruler)
- ^ Dedicated to Selim's mother Ayşe Hatun
- ^ Dedicated to Suleyman's mother Hafsa Sultan
- ^ Dedicated to Süleyman's son Mehmet who died young
- ^ Mihrimah: Daughter of Süleyman I
- ^ She commissioned two mosques , the first in Asiatic and the second on the European sides of the Bosphorous
- ^ Nurbanu: Mother of Murat III
- ^ Safiye Sultan : 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
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