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The Selimiye Mosque (Turkish: Selimiye Camii) is an Ottoman imperial mosque, located in the city of Edirne (formerly Adrianople), Turkey. It was commissioned by Sultan Selim II and was built by the imperial architect Mimar Sinan between 1568 and 1575. [ 1 ]
Front view of the mosque and its entrance portico. The mosque was built with high-quality stone in the Ottoman Baroque style that dominated the 18th century. [9] Its design illustrates the degree of influence exerted by the earlier Beylerbeyi Mosque (1777–1778) built by Selim III's predecessor, Abdülhamid I, which incorporates a wide multi-story imperial pavilion (a kind of private lounge ...
The Selimiye Mosque is housed in the largest and oldest surviving Gothic church in Cyprus (interior dimensions: 66 X 21 m) possibly constructed on the site of an earlier Byzantine church. In total, the mosque has a capacity to hold 2500 worshipers with 1,750 m 2 (18,800 sq ft) available for worship. [2]
The mosque is located in the historical center of the city, near the market and close to other prominent historical mosques, Selimiye Mosque and Üç Şerefeli Mosque. The mosque is covered by 9 domes supported on four columns. The mosque had originally a single minaret, the taller one was later built by Murat II. The mosque without a courtyard ...
Ottoman architect Mimar Sinan attempted to solve the structural issues of the Hagia Sophia dome by constructing a system of centrally symmetric pillars with flanking semi-domes, as exemplified by the design of the Süleymaniye Mosque (four pillars with two flanking shield walls and two semi-domes, 1550–1557) and the Selimiye Mosque in Edirne ...
Bedesten or Bedestan is a historical building in the Selimiye quarter of North Nicosia, North Cyprus, located directly beside the Selimiye Mosque. [1] The structure has a long and complicated history spanning more than one thousand years.
Selimiye Mosque in Edirne in the first quarter of the 20th century. Zappeion Greek Girls' Central School of Adrianople , the Greek Girls' School in Edirne (1884). Adrianople was briefly occupied by imperial Russian troops in 1829 during the Greek War of Independence and in 1878 during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878 .
The mosque has a modern architectural style in the shape of a black rectangle. In front of the mosque there is a large parking lot with space for 48 cars, a small kiosk and tents for those breaking their fast during the month of Ramadan. The area of the mosque is about 3,456 square meters.