Sacred Places
11 places found
IslamBayezid I Mosque
Bursa · Turkey · mosque
The congregational mosque at the heart of the Yildirim Kulliye in Bursa, raised between 1390 and 1395 for the Ottoman sultan Bayezid I, called Yildirim, the Thunderbolt, and now part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Bursa and Cumalikizik.
IslamGrand Mosque of Bursa
Bursa · Turkey · mosque
The Grand Mosque of Bursa, known in Turkish as Ulu Cami, is the largest mosque in the Ottomans' first capital and a landmark of early Ottoman architecture, its vast prayer hall roofed by twenty domes and centred on a rare indoor ablution fountain. Commissioned by Sultan Bayezid I and completed in 1399, it is celebrated for the 192 monumental calligraphic panels that line its walls and pillars.
IslamHagia Sophia Grand Mosque
Istanbul · Türkiye · mosque
Justinian's Great Church of 537, the largest cathedral in the world for nearly a thousand years, became the grand mosque of Istanbul in 1453, a museum in 1935, and a working mosque again on 24 July 2020, its Byzantine mosaics still open to view in the upper gallery.
IslamMenüçehr Mosque
Ani · Turkey · mosque
Standing above the gorge of the Aras river on the ruined edge of Ani, the Menüçehr Mosque has stood since the Seljuk era as the first mosque the Turks raised in Anatolia, its octagonal minaret climbing over stone the colour of the surrounding steppe.
IslamMesih Mehmed Pasha Mosque
Istanbul · Turkey · mosque
A sixteenth century Ottoman Friday mosque in the Fatih district of Istanbul, raised for the grand vizier Mesih Mehmed Pasha and completed in 1585 to 1586, its lead covered dome resting on a stepped, sloping site above a vaulted row of shops.
IslamMolla Gürani Mosque
Istanbul · Turkey · mosque
A Byzantine church reborn as an Ottoman mosque in the Vefa quarter of Istanbul's Fatih district, its brick banded dome and arched windows counted among the city's most important surviving examples of Komnenian and Palaiologan architecture.
IslamOrtaköy Mosque
Istanbul · Turkey · mosque
An Ottoman Baroque mosque of the mid-1850s on the Bosphorus shore in Istanbul's Ortaköy quarter, its marble facade and paired minarets rising beneath the Bosphorus Bridge as one of the strait's most recognised silhouettes.
IslamSelimiye Mosque, Edirne
Edirne · Türkiye · mosque
Mimar Sinan's crowning masterwork, a mosque of 1568-1575 whose single 31 m dome and four 70.89 m minarets rise over old Ottoman Edirne; a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
IslamSuleymaniye Mosque
Istanbul · Türkiye · mosque
The imperial mosque Mimar Sinan raised for Suleiman the Magnificent between 1550 and 1557, crowning Istanbul's Third Hill above the Golden Horn, still an active mosque at the heart of its charitable kulliye.
IslamSultan Ahmed Mosque (Blue Mosque)
Istanbul · Türkiye · mosque
The imperial mosque of Sultan Ahmed I, raised between 1609 and 1617 facing Hagia Sophia, its six minarets and 21,043 blue Iznik tiles giving it its second name, the Blue Mosque, and a working congregational mosque to this day.
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.