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The mosque had been commissioned in 1558 by Selim II while he was still a şehzade (prince) working as a sanjak governor. Although the mosque was constructed while Mimar Sinan held the post of chief architect, the building is not listed in any of his autobiographies. In Konya Sinan only lists the renovation of a hospice. The construction was completed in 1570 after Selim became the sultan. Later it was repaired three times; in 1685, 1816 and 1914
The Selimiye Mosque (Turkish: Selimiye Camii) is an Ottoman imperial mosque, which is located in the city of Edirne, Turkey is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The mosque was commissioned by Sultan Selim II, and was built by the imperial architect Mimar Sinan between 1568 and 1575. It was considered by Sinan to be his masterpiece and is one of the highest achievements of Islamic architecture.
Edirne Selimiye Cami - Mimar Sinan Başyapıtı (Edirne Selimiye Mosque - Architect Sinan Masterpiece)
Kurucusu : Sultan İkinci Selim
Mimarı : Koca Sinan
Yapılış Tarihi : 1568 - 1574
Kapladığı Yer : Külliye ile birlikte 22.202 m2
Caminin İçi : 1620 m2
Caminin Haremi : 2475 2
Kubbenin Çapı : 31.30 m.
Yerden Kubbenin Kilit Taşına olan yüksekliği : 43.28 m.
Minarelerin Yüksekliği : 70.89 m. ya da 72.50 m.
Die Selimiye-Moschee wurde ursprünglich zwischen 1209 und 1228 n.Chr. als Sophien-Kathedrale erbaut.
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The Selimiye Mosque (Turkish: Selimiye Camii) is an Ottoman mosque in the city of Edirne, Turkey. The mosque was commissioned by Sultan Selim II and was built by architect Mimar Sinan between 1569 and 1575 . It was considered by Sinan to be his masterpiece and is one of the highest achievements of Islamic architecture.
In 2011 it was added to the Unesco world heritage list.
see also: whc.unesco.org/en/list/1366
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South of Side is the small fishing village of Selimiye. We visited it in the late afternoon at dusk. We walked the path through the many ancient excavation pieces to the 5 pillars of the "Apollon Temple".
Side am türkischen Mittelmeer
Südlich von Side liegt das kleine Fischerdorf Selimiye. Am späten Nachmittag in der Dämmerung haben wir es besucht. Wir gingen den Weg durch die vielen antiken Ausgrabungsstücke zu den 5 Säulen des ,,Apollon-Tempel ".
Wonder Selimiye Dome Inside. İçerden Muhteşem Selimiye Camii Kubbesi. Centrum, Edirne Province, TURKEI. OneTurkei Photo Album - Candidate Photographs
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The Selimiye Mosque and Complex (Turkish: Selimiye Camii ve Külliyesi) is an Ottoman imperial Mosque, which is located in the city of Edirne, Republic of Turkei. The mosque was commissioned by Ottoman Sultan Selim II, and was built by architect Mimar Sinan between 1569 and 1575. It was considered by Sinan to be his masterpiece and is one of the highest achievements of Islamic architecture.
Selimiye Mosque, Edirne, Turkey
The Selimiye Mosque is an Ottoman imperial mosque, which is located in the city of Edirne, Turkey is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The mosque was commissioned by Sultan Selim II, and was built by the imperial architect Mimar Sinan between 1568 and 1575. It was considered by Sinan to be his masterpiece and is one of the highest achievements of Islamic architecture. [1]
The square Mosque with its single great dome and four slender minarets, dominates the skyline of the former Ottoman capital of Edirne. Sinan, the most famous of Ottoman architects in the 16th century, considered the complex, which includes madrasas (Islamic schools), a covered market, clock house, outer courtyard and library, to be his best work. The interior decoration using Iznik tiles from the peak period of their production testifies to an art form that remains unsurpassed in this material. The complex is considered to be the most harmonious expression ever achieved of the Ottoman külliye, a group of buildings constructed around a mosque and managed as a single institution. [2]
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Turkish refugees from Crete established the fishing village of Selimiye in 1895 on the southern half of the abandoned ancient city of Side.
The first excavations began in 1947 and continue to this day. Side was placed under UNESCO protection in 1966.
The place Selimiye today builds over the southern part of ancient Side and forms the center of Side.
Die 5 Säulen des ,,Apollon-Tempel "
Türkische Flüchtlinge aus Kreta gründeten 1895 auf der südlichen Hälfte der verlassenen antiken Stadt Side das Fischerdorf Selimiye.
1947 begannen erste Ausgrabungen, die bis heute andauern. Side wurde 1966 von der UNESCO unter Schutz gestellt.
Der Ort Selimiye überbaut heute den südlichen Teil des antiken Side und bildet das Zentrum von Side.
During my trip I have seen many wonderful mosques. This one in Edirne Turkey was one of the best, certainly the interior with the beautiful red carpet, and all the light, the ceiling etc. Everything was very well thought of and sophisticated.
I tried to get the cupola also in one shot, but that caused to much distortion, so you have to do with this shot!
20 September I came back from my journey over a part of the Silk Road to and through Central Asia. 4 months of traveling through 14 countries (Germany, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Iran) before I flew home from Teheran. An impressive journey in countries that are extremely beautiful, with lovely and welcoming people and diverse cultures and history.
Intense traveling with more than 20000 kilometers in our mobile home on sometimes roads that hardly could be called that way. We saw many villages and cities (some wonderful, others very ugly), countries that are transforming from the old Soviet era into something more related to older cultures and the way people live, often funded by oil readily available around the Caspian sea. We saw the amazing mountains south of the Black Sea, the wonderful Caucasus, and the high mountains in the far east close to China with peaks over 7000 meter, and not to forget the (Bulgarian) Alps!
We crossed the great steppe of Kazakhstan. a drive of at least 5000 km, the remnants of lake Aral, once one of the biggest lakes of the world, saw a rocket launch from Baikonur (this little part is Russian owned), we crossed many high mountains passes, and drove the breathtaking canyon that comes from the Pamir, beginning at ca 4500 meter, and going down for ca. 400km to an altitude of 1300 meter, driving for 100's of kilometers along the Afghan border.
And then the numerous lakes with all sorts of different colors from deep cobalt blue to turquoise, and one rare spectacle in Turkmenistan where a gas crater is burning already for more than 40 years. And finally and certainly not the least to mention an enormous amount of wonderful, hospitable and welcoming people. The woman often dressed in wonderful dresses, and bringing a lot of color in the streets of almost of all countries we visited.
The Selimiye Mosque, which belongs to the DITIB and is run by the “Türkisch Islamischen Gemeinde zu Lünen e.V.”, is located on Roonstraße in Lünen-Mitte and was opened on March 30, 2008 after nine years of construction in the presence of Regina van Dinther, then President of the State Parliament. At the time, it was the largest mosque in North Rhine-Westphalia. The construction costs amounted to around 3 million euros. There are 2,400 square meters of floor space available, 640 of which are prayer rooms for men and women. There are rooms for youth work and women's groups, a tea room and a large parking lot in front of the mosque.
The exterior of the mosque has a Turkish-Islamic design with a minaret. The unclad concrete building material gives the building a modern, sober appearance. The interior is richly decorated with mosaics and calligraphy. In the center of the interior under the dome is a fountain, above which is a 450-kilogram chandelier with over 100 lamps. The mosque has a women's area in the gallery. There is no public call to prayer. According to moscheesuche.de, around 500 worshippers attend Friday prayers.
The construction led to some heated disputes in Lünen. As soon as the approval process began, conflicts arose in the district and beyond. A collection of signatures was organized against the construction of the mosque, the CDU parliamentary group voted against the building, while the SPD and Bündnis 90/Die Grünen supported it. Some supporters received anonymous threats. After the planning permission was granted by the city council, three local residents took legal action against the planning permission at the administrative court. The proceedings ended with a settlement: the building permit was confirmed, but conditions were agreed that restricted the use of the mosque and parking lot.
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The mosque had been commissioned in 1558 by Selim II. The construction was completed in 1570 after Selim became the sultan. Later, it was repaired thrice: in 1685, 1816, and 1914.
Selimiye Mosque. It was built in Edirne/Turkey during 1568-1575 by architect Mimar Sinan upon the orders of Sultan Selim II.
Selimiye Mosque is one of the most fascinating buildings in Northern Cyprus. It is also the largest building which survived so many centuries in Nicosia. As some sources say: it "may have been the largest church built in the Eastern Mediterranean in the millennium between the rise of Islam and the late Ottoman period".
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Muradiye Külliyesinden Selimiye Camiine bakış. Bu fotoğraf Edirne'ye gidip burayı görmeden geri dönen bir zat için yüklendi :)
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Mosque with its single great dome and four slender minarets, dominates the skyline of the former Ottoman capital of Edirne. Sinan, the most famous of Ottoman architects in the 16th century, considered the complex, which includes madrasas (Islamic schools), a covered market, clock house, outer courtyard and library, to be his best work. The interior decoration using Iznik tiles from the peak period of their production testifies to an art form that remains unsurpassed in this material. The complex is considered to be the most harmonious expression ever achieved of the Ottoman külliye, a group of buildings constructed around a mosque and managed as a single institution. (Source; UNESCO)
The Selimiye Mosque (Turkish: Selimiye Camii) is a mosque in the city of Edirne, Turkey. The mosque was commissioned by Sultan Selim II and was built by architect Mimar Sinan between 1568 and 1574. It was considered by Sinan to be his masterpiece and is one of the highest achievements of Islamic architecture.
This grand mosque stands at the center of a külliye (complex of a hospital, school, library and/or baths around a mosque) which comprises a medrese (Islamic academy teaches both Islamic and Scientific lessons), a dar-ül hadis (Al-Hadith school), a timekeeper's room and an arasta (row of shops). It also contains a Bayezid II Külliye Health Museum, now a museum. In this mosque Sinan employed an octagonal supporting system that is created through eight pillars incised in a square shell of walls. The four semi domes at the corners of the square behind the arches that spring from the pillars, are intermediary sections between the huge encompassing dome (31.25m diameter with spherical profile) and the walls.While conventional mosques were limited by a segmented interior, Sinan's effort at Edirne was a structure that made it possible to see the mihrab from any location within the mosque. Surrounded by four of the tallest pencil-shaped minarets, the Mosque of Selim II has a grand dome atop it. Around the rest of the mosque were many additions: libraries, schools, hospices, baths, soup kitchens for the poor, markets, hospitals, and a cemetery. These annexes were aligned axially and grouped, if possible. In front of the splendid mosque sits a rectangular court with an area equal to that of the mosque. The innovation however, comes not in the size of the building, but from the organization of its interior. The mihrab is pushed back into an apse-like alcove with a space with enough depth to allow for window illumination from three sides. This has the effect of making the tile panels of its lower walls sparkler with natural light. The amalgamation of the main hall forms a fused octagon with the dome-covered square. Formed by eight massive dome supports, the octagon, is pierced by four half dome covered corners of the square. The beauty resulting from the conformity of geometric shapes engulfed in each other was the culmination of Sinan's life long search for a unified interior space.
At the Bulgarian siege of Edirne in 1915, the dome of the mosque is hit by Bulgarian artillery. Since the dome is built extremely strong, the mosque survived the assult with only some damages at the coating of the dome. With Atatürk's order, it has not been restored since then, to warn the next generations.
Maybe it was the warm sunny late October weather, or the peace and quiet and lack of tourists, but from the moment I set my eyes on the four towering minarets, I fell in love with this building. The atmosphere reminded us of the Yesil (Green) Mosque in Bursa, but this was even more magnificent. I would say that it is the most beautiful, graceful building I have ever seen in my life.
P1089948b - Istanbul, Türkiye
Nevmekan Selimiye is a historic hamam in the Üsküdar district, which is now used as a café with a museum interior.
Selimiye Mosque
(St. Sophia Cathedral),
Nicosia, Cyprus
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Selimiye Mosque, historically known as Cathedral of Saint Sophia, is a former Roman Catholic cathedral converted into a mosque, located in North Nicosia.
It is the main mosque of the city.
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 1750 m2 available for worship.
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