Suleymaniye Mosque

The Suleymaniye Mosque, which Mimar Sinan described as a journeyman's work, was built between 1551-1558 on the order of the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. The Suleymaniye Mosque is one of the most important examples of Classical Ottoman Architecture. The dome of the mosque, which has four minarets, two of which are with three honor and two with two honor, is 53 meters high. The first stone on the basis of the temple, which was built in one of the most beautiful parts of Istanbul, is rumored that the great scholar Sheikh al -Islam Ebussuud Efendi.

The temple has a main dome, two half dome and two quarter dome and ten small dome. The main dome is on four elephant legs; The dome belts retreat to four large granite columns. The dome with 32 windows is 27.25 meters in diameter and 53 meters above the ground. In order to strengthen the opposite of the sedan, there are 50 cm tall 64 cubes in the dome and in the corners and in the corners, so that a sensitive acoustic occurs. The mosque, which has an internal area of ​​approximately 3 thousand 500 square meters, is 59 meters in length and width and receives light from 238 windows. Granite and marble columns are attracted attention with their sultanate and muezzin mahfili, pulpit and mihrab workmanship. Surrounded by mineral networks to the right of the muezzin mahfil, the section was used as a library until 1918; The existing books were transferred to the General Library established in Süleymaniye Madrasahs on the same date.

On the front of the mosque, which has five gates, there are colored windows above the mihrab. The windows, the work of the well-known master of the era Ibrahim Usta, compare the sunlight entering from the windows to Mimar Sinan Şehper-i Cibril (the wings of Gabriel). There are four very valuable granite columns in the mosque and they were taken from Alexandria, Baalbek, Kıztaşı in Istanbul and the Saray-ı Amire and brought to the mosque. Mimar Sinan, each with a height of 9.02 meters in a height of 1.14 meters in diameter and 40-50 tons, resembles Mimar Sinan to four caliphs. The floor of the temple has a large inner courtyard with marbles and surrounded by 28 -domed portico. The aforementioned dome belts are based on 24 columns, 12 are granite, 10 marbles and two are somaki marble columns.

The mosque has four minarets and ten honors made in accordance with its own majesty. Two of the minarets are three of them and the other two are two honor. The minarets called "Mosque Minarets" and "Harem Minarets" were the fourth sultan with the conquest of Istanbul; Ten honor points out that the Ottoman Empire was the 10th sultan. The minarets rising towards the sky are similar to a person praying by lifting both hands. The articles in the mosque are the work of the famous calligraphy Ahmet Karahisarî and his student Hasan Çelebi. Later, Kazasker Mustafa Efendi added some writings. Apart from a few of the articles, the text of all of them was taken from the Holy Quran and processed in a skillful way. The inscription written on the door entered from the inner courtyard to the mosque is divided into three sections: right-medium-left. In the first part, the qualifications of Kanuni are counted, in the second part, his genealogy (lineage) is indicated in the form of a range, and in the third part, the continuation of the reign and the souls of the past are indicated by the intention and when the superior qualities of the temple are made after prayer. The tomb in front of the mihrab belongs to Suleiman the Magnificent, who built a mosque with his own money, and his wife Hürrem Sultan.

The mosque garden, which has an area of ​​approximately 6 thousand square meters, has 11 gates. Around the garden, seven madrasahs were established at high school level, which were famous as the Süleymaniye Madrasahs and one faculty and one of the specialized department. While the buildings on the right side of the mosque were the Sibyan School with the Madrasahs before and Sani Madrasahs, he was later subject to the Süleymaniye Puttony and a part of the children's library. The medical madrasah located in the corner is the Birth House and the Bimarhane in front of him is a military printing house, while the girl currently serves as the Koran Course. The buildings in the northern jihad of the mosque were used as an imarethane and later used as a museum of Turkish-Islamic works and transferred to the Süleymaniye Library in 1984.