Selimiye-Moschee Selimiye Mosque

The Selimiye Mosque rises on a low hill above Edirne, the former Ottoman capital, and is the work of the imperial architect Mimar Sinan completed when he was eighty years old — and by his own account, his masterpiece. An inscription records the foundation in 1568 (AH 976); the mosque was due to open in November 1574, but the death of Sultan Selim II pushed the first prayer service to March 1575. What makes it extraordinary is a single dome, 31.25 metres across and 43.25 metres high, that covers the entire prayer hall without a single intermediate column — a spatial ambition no earlier mosque or ancient temple had attempted. In 2011 the mosque and its surrounding complex were inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Step inside, and every element — the forecourt, the dome, the mihrab, the four slender minarets — defers to that central vault above.

Türkei · 5 Die übersehenen Ecken im Inneren

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Die übersehenen Ecken im Inneren

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