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Süleymaniye Mosque: Süleymaniye Camii
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  • Süleymaniye Camii stands on top of a hill and can be seen from many places in Istanbul. It is the largest mosque in Istanbul and it was built only in seven years, in 1550 - 1557. The mosque was built by the great architect Sinan for Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent. The interior is huge and very nice. Four columns are supporting the dome. There is little decoration other then some Iznik tiles and stained glass windows. The courtyard is a pleasant place.

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  • Directions: Behind the University

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    Süleymaniye Mosque: Suleymaniye Camii PART I (I&V)
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  • Suleiman the Magnificent was the most powerful ruler of his time, the greatest ruler of Ottoman Empire and one of the most significant rulers in the history. Appropriate to his title – the mosque he was the patron of, built between 1550 and 1557, is the magnificent building. Constructed on the highest point of the Golden Horn's west bank, the mosque is the artwork of architect Sinan, the greatest architect of Ottoman Empire and "the closest Turkey gets to a Renaissance architect". Sinan, man of Greek or Armenian origin, lived for almost a century, was the chief Ottoman architect during the region of four sultans and constructed about four hundred buildings! Suleymaniye Camii – Suleiman Mosque is 59 m in length and 58 m in width. The main dome is 53 m high and has a diameter of 26.5 m. It has four minarets with a total of 10 galleries indicating that Suleiman the Magnificent was the 10th Ottoman sultan. To be continued in PART II…

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  • Address: Prof. Siddik Sami Onar Caddesi, Vefa
  • Phone: (0212) 5140139
  • Directions: Suleiman Mosque is located north from Kapali Carsi – Grand Bazaar and University.

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    Süleymaniye Mosque: Suleymaniye Camii PART II (I&V)
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  • […] The mosque suffered the damage from fire in 1660 and from the earthquake in 1766. It was restored in several occasions, the last time in 1956 to gain its faithful appearance. The mosque interior, mostly red in colour, decorated with Iznik tiles is very spacious and astonishingly beautiful. In the garden behind the mosque there are two mausoleums – turbes – one of Suleiman the Magnificent and the other of Hurrem, Suleiman's wife of Russian, Ukrainian of Georgian origin, the first especially powerful and the most influential woman of the Ottoman Empire. Turbe of Sinan is just outside the walls of the mosque to the north, across the street named Mimar Sinan Caddesi in his honour. The mosque complex includes medreses – theological schools, school of medicine, caravanserai – building for rest and recover from the day's journey, Turkish bath, kitchen and hospice for the poor.

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  • Address: Prof. Siddik Sami Onar Caddesi, Vefa
  • Phone: (0212) 5140139
  • Directions: Suleiman Mosque is located north from Kapali Carsi – Grand Bazaar and University.

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    Süleymaniye Mosque: Suleymaniye Mosque
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  • The Suleymaniye mosque is one of Istanbul’s greatest examples of Ottoman architecture. It was built in 1557 under the orders of Suleymaniye the Magnificent, whose reign marked the apex of the Ottoman Empire. It interior design is a combination of splendor and tranquility. The outside is a geometrical masterpiece, with domes of various diameters blending with ease. Just outside the mosque is a mausoleum containing the body of Suleymaniye. Many of the most important Pashas, a term reserved for ministers or advisers to the sultan, are buried in the surrounding cemetery.

  • Directions: In the Beyazit neighborhood, behind Istanbul University.

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    Süleymaniye Mosque: Mosque of Suleyman the magnificient
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  • I dont know how didi I forgot this mosque.. Suleymaniye Mosque is one of the greatest mosques of Istanbul.. It is located behind the Istanbul Univercity.. It can also be seen from the Eminonu pier.. It was constructed on the highest point of the hill to be seen from everywhere.. The mosquee has been constructed on 1556 by Suleyman the Magnificient.. The mosque has 4 minarets, representing that Sultan Suleyman is the forth sultan after the Conquest of Istanbul and 10 balconies on the minarets represents that the Sultan Suleyman is the 10th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.. The mosquee has three entrances.. Inside the mosquee you will be dazzled. Suppose the best alternative after Blue mosque.. The tomn of Sultan Suleyman is also in the Garden of the Mosquee

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    Süleymaniye Mosque: From Galata Bridge
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  • Have you have ever heard about Suliman the Magnificent? If you have, the Mosque that has his name, the biggest Mosque of Istanbul will tell you a little bit about his power. If you have not, ask any cultivated European about this guy who was at the gate of Vienna in 1529. You must see the way to become very active in learning a bit about other cultures and abandoning those false supremacist poses...

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    Süleymaniye Mosque: From Ataturk Bridge.
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  • I saw at least three bridges over the waters of the Golden Horn. The New Galata, the Ataturk, and the Old Galata Bridges. My first evening in Istanbul I walked to the old city from my hotel in Taksim and crossed the Galata Bridge and came back to my place crossing the Ataturk. From Ataturk Bridge the Suleyman Mosque domains the sight field... Magnifique!!!!

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    Süleymaniye Mosque: SULEYMANIYE MOSQUE
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  • The cascading domes and four slender minarets of the Imperial Suleymaniye Mosque dominate the skyline on the Golden Horn's west bank. Considered the most beautiful of all imperial mosques in Istanbul, it was built between 1550 and 1557 by Sinan, the renowned architect of the Ottoman Empire's golden age. Erected on the crest of a hill, the building is conspicuous for its great size, emphasized by the four minarets that rise from each comer of the courtyard. Inside are the mihrab (prayer niche showing the direction to Mecca) and the mimber (pulpit) made of finely carved white marble and exquisite stained-glass windows coloring the incoming streams of light. It was in the gardens of this complex that Suleyman and his wife, Hurrem Sultan (Roxelane), had their mausolea built, and near here also Sinan built his own tomb. The mosque complex also includes four medreses, or theological schools, a school of medicine, a caravanserai, a Turkish bath, and a kitchen and hospice for the poor.

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    Süleymaniye Mosque: Suleymaniye Mosque
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  • Standing on a hill next to the Golden Horn, the Suleymaniye mosque is for me the most beautiful mosque in Istanbul. It's very impressive by its size but also its simplicity. It's decorated with Iznik tiles (blue and white) and stained-glass windows which colour the natural light. It was built between 1550 and 1557 by Sinan, the renowned architect of the Ottoman Empire's golden age, under the reign of Suleyman the Magnificent, the tenth sultan of the Ottoman dynasty, who is buried with his wife Roxelana in the courtyard next to the mosque.

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    Süleymaniye Mosque: The legacy
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  • Of course when we reach the Mosque, the 5pm prayer was over and the bulding closed, but we searched for the legacy of the ancestors and we found it. ...the green stones of eternity will always remind us of the glorious times and people who made them such, so looking at them we should try our best for our descendants would always remember the glorious times...

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