List of mosques commissioned by the Ottoman dynasty
 | This article needs additional citations for verification. (April 2010) |
The list below contains some of the most important mosques in modern-day Turkey that were commissioned by the members of Ottoman imperial family. Some of these major mosques are also known as a selatin mosque, imperial mosque,[1] or sultanic mosque, meaning a mosque commissioned in the name of the sultan and, in theory, commemorating a military triumph.[2][3][4] Some mosques were commissioned by or dedicated to other members of the dynastic family, especially important women such as the mothers or wives of sultans.[5][6] Usually, only a sultanic mosque or a mosque commissioned by a queen mother (valide) was granted the privilege of having more than one minaret.[7]
The table
[edit]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.
Mosques on the hills of Istanbul
[edit]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
- Süleymaniye Mosque
- Fatih Mosque
- Yavuz Selim Mosque
- Mihrimah Sultan Mosque
Notes
[edit]- ^ 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 Istanbul
- ^ 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
[edit]- ^ Goodwin 1971, p. 459.
- ^ Necipoğlu 2005, pp. 59–69.
- ^ Rüstem 2019, pp. 112–119.
- ^ Cagaptay, Soner (2019). Erdogan's Empire: Turkey and the Politics of the Middle East. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 287. ISBN 978-1-78673-597-3.
- ^ Necipoğlu 2005.
- ^ Rüstem 2019.
- ^ Necipoğlu 2005, pp. 121–122.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Rüstem 2019, p. 172.
Bibliography
[edit]- Goodwin, Godfrey (1971). A History of Ottoman Architecture. Thames & Hudson. ISBN 0-500-27429-0.
- Necipoğlu, Gülru (2005). The Age of Sinan: Architectural Culture in the Ottoman Empire. London: Reaktion Books. ISBN 978-1-86189-253-9.
- Rüstem, Ünver (2019). Ottoman Baroque: The Architectural Refashioning of Eighteenth-Century Istanbul. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691181875.