Süleymaniye Mosque-ISTANBUL

[Kuvvaci]

Süleymaniye Mosque: One of the master work of the Great Ottoman Architect Sinan .

This building is complated between 1550-1554, such a short period for 16th century.

http://wowturkey.com/tr35/kemal_bereket_suleymaniyede_gunsonu.jpg

http://dunyaturk.com/tr31/osman_k_yenicamii2.jpg

http://dunyaturk.com/tr28/Faruk_suleyman01.jpg

http://dunyaturk.com/tr28/Faruk_suleymaniye16.jpg

http://dunyaturk.com/tr28/Faruk_suleyman05.jpg

http://dunyaturk.com/tr28/Faruk_suleymaniye17.jpg

http://dunyaturk.com/tr22/kemal_bereket_suleymaniye1.jpg

http://dunyaturk.com/tr28/Faruk_suleymaniye0100.jpg

http://dunyaturk.com/tr28/Faruk_suleymaniye7.jpg

http://dunyaturk.com/tr28/Faruk_suleymaniye10.jpg

[Arpels]

very beautiful an hig too :uh:

[Allan]

It is fantastacally beautiful :okay:

[Kuvvaci]

It has an incredible aqustic. Sinan worked on its aqustic for months and put some special parts on the walls and the dome for a better sound. He was checking the aqustic by smoking nargile (Turkish Pipe) in the building. The voice of the water was ecoing.

[Monkey]

Magnificent :)

[bulgerhoog]

I visited Istanbul in the summer of 1985, so about 20 years ago. I can remember my visit to the Suleymaniye as very impressive. The feeling of space when you enter the mosque is overwhelming. Your attention is drawn to the building itself and not so much like in Italian baroque churches to all kinds of paintings/statues etc.

Erik

[Wicky]

Based on Hagia Sofia Bysantine architecture.

[Kuvvaci]

http://users.tyenet.com/kozlich/mimarkocasinan1489-1588.jpg
"Here Sinan demonstrated his transformation of the Hagia Sophia plan from which he had drawn his inspiration: his dome is buttressed by two half-domes and two typanum walls."

"Sinan's solution of putting four minarets at the corners of his arcaded courtyard (inspired by the atrium) sets up a counterpoint between a solid volume on the mosque side and a 'negative' space on the courtyard side."

—Henri Stierlin. Comprende l'Architecture universelle


Who is Sinan?

http://archnet.org/library/parties/one-party.tcl?party_id=630

http://users.tyenet.com/kozlich/mimarkocasinan1489-1588.jpg

http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Suyleman_Mosque.html

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?r104:E04JN6-151:

http://www.bartleby.com/65/si/Sinan.html

http://www.bcee.concordia.ca/~kahale/architect.html

http://www.designcommunity.com/discussion/25248.html

[AstroBoy]

Very impressive. :)

[MIMICA]

absolutely wonderful! :) i love the mosque, and i just hope they build more like those! :)

[www.sercan.de]

Süleymaniye Mosque, which is one of Sinan's foreman's piece', was built by Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent in 1557. The mosque seemed to symbolise the genius of Sinan's architecture and the power of Süleyman. The composition of the great dome inner space illustrates the culmination of Ottoman mosque design. Rumour has it that the 4 minarets on both sides of its court meant that the sultan who had it built was the 4th ruler as from the conquest of Istanbul and the total number of the minaret balconies mean that Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent was the 10th sultan after Sultan Osman Ghazi who founded the Ottoman State. The dome is 53 m high and has a diamater of 26,5 m. Sinan called it "my journeyman work".

[www.sercan.de]

bosphorus, asia and Bosphorus Bridge
http://wowturkey.com/tr36/Murat_Efendi_sulym1.jpg
Galata Tower (other side of the Golden Horn)
http://wowturkey.com/tr36/Murat_Efendi_sulym2.jpg
New Mosque
http://wowturkey.com/tr36/Murat_Efendi_sulym4.jpg

[Istanbullu]

Based on Hagia Sofia Bysantine architecture.

so?

[nukey]

Its nice that the muslim empire could appropriate the architecture of its predecessors and build on it.

[www.sercan.de]

so?
yes, ottoman mosques are based on the Hagia Sophia...
But Sinan made it better with the Selimiye in Edirne..more windows so better light in the interior

[Kuvvaci]

some more dome photos

http://wowturkey.com/tr36/osman_k_suleymaniye1.jpg

http://wowturkey.com/tr36/osman_k_suleymaniye2.jpg

http://wowturkey.com/tr36/osman_k_suleymaniye3.jpg

[Kuvvaci]

http://wowturkey.com/tr36/Murat_Efendi_sulym5.jpg

http://wowturkey.com/tr36/Murat_Efendi_sulym7.jpg

http://wowturkey.com/tr36/Murat_Efendi_sulym8.jpg

http://wowturkey.com/tr36/Murat_Efendi_sulym13.jpg

[RW-co]

impressive. A giant temple...

[toraman]

This mosque is so wonderful. One of the beauty of Turkey

[geometricien]

...one of the most important buldings of the world... excellent..

[SinCity]

Wonderful building.

[Lex]

That's it? Suleymaniye Mosque, "wonderful building"?????? No picture, nothing? Talk about anti-climax....

[Kuvvaci]

Originally poasted by Lex

That's it? Suleymaniye Mosque, "wonderful building"?????? No picture, nothing? Talk about anti-climax....

I guess your PC has a problem...

[icy]

Amazing.If we think that there was no technology,they have worked very hard to build this gorgeous structure.

[Kuvvaci]

And construction lasted so short... It's really incredible