Sacred Places
12 places found
IslamBayezid I Mosque
· Turkey · mosque
An early Ottoman congregational mosque in Bursa, Turkey, raised between 1391 and 1395 as the centrepiece of the great külliye complex of Sultan Bayezid I, called 'Yıldırım' — the Thunderbolt.
IslamBursa Grand Mosque
· Turkey · mosque
An early Ottoman congregational mosque in Bursa, Turkey, commissioned by Sultan Bayezid I to mark his victory at Nicopolis and built between 1396 and 1399.
ChristianityCathedral of Ani
· Turkey · church
The eleventh-century Armenian Apostolic cathedral of the ruined Bagratid capital of Ani in eastern Turkey — the largest standing building of that lost medieval city.
IslamHagia Sophia
· Turkey · mosque
Hagia Sophia, the Grand Mosque of the Holy Wisdom in Istanbul, was the Byzantine cathedral of Constantinople for nearly a thousand years before its conversion to a mosque in 1453 and its present role as a working Friday mosque of the Turkish republic.
IslamMenüçehr Mosque
· Turkey · mosque
An eleventh-century mosque set within the ruins of the medieval Armenian-Islamic city of Ani in Kars Province, Turkey, raised under the Kurdish Shaddadid dynasty.
IslamMesih Mehmed Pasha Mosque
· Turkey · mosque
A sixteenth-century Ottoman mosque in the Fatih district of Istanbul, Turkey, completed in 1585-86 by Mimar Sinan for the grand vizier Mesih Mehmed Pasha.
IslamMolla Gürani Mosque
· Turkey · mosque
A former Eastern Orthodox church in Istanbul, Turkey, converted by the Ottomans into a mosque and preserved as one of the city's important monuments of Byzantine architecture.
IslamOrtaköy Mosque
· Turkey · mosque
An ornate nineteenth-century Ottoman mosque on the Bosphorus shore in Besiktas, Istanbul, Turkey, formally the Buyuk Mecidiye Camii and commissioned by Sultan Abdulmecid I.
IslamSelimiye Mosque
· Turkey · mosque
A name shared by several Ottoman-era mosques across Turkey and beyond, most famously the great sixteenth-century sanctuary of Edirne designed by the architect Mimar Sinan.
IslamSüleymaniye Mosque
· Turkey · mosque
The great imperial mosque of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent on Istanbul's Third Hill, designed by Mimar Sinan and counted among the masterpieces of Ottoman architecture.
IslamSultan Ahmed Mosque
· Turkey · mosque
The seventeenth-century imperial mosque of Sultan Ahmed I in Istanbul, popularly called the Blue Mosque for its luminous interior tilework and counted among the masterpieces of Ottoman architecture.
IslamZeyrek Mosque
· Turkey · mosque
An Istanbul mosque housed within the former Byzantine Monastery of the Pantokrator, the finest surviving example of Middle Byzantine architecture in Constantinople.