Today is the first day of my travel diary and I visited the 448-year-old Selimiye Mosque in Edirne, Turkey. I took many beautiful photographs of both the exterior and interior design of this mosque and I will share them with you.
I will give you detailed information about the history of the mosque, its features, the person who built it, where the location is and why it is a very important mosque. In my profile, I will now share with you the museums, historical artifacts and touristic places in the places I frequently travel to.
Today I visited the Selimiye Mosque in Edirne, the westernmost city of Turkey. First, I would like to share with you the photos of the exterior of the mosque.
Login Information About the Mosque:
- Location: Edirne/ Turkey
- Architect(s) Koca Mimar Sinan
- Architectural Form: Ottoman Architecture
- Construction start: 1568
- Completion: 1574
The completion period took exactly 6 years.
Selimiye Mosque has features that attract the attention of everyone who visits it or sees its photographs. This mosque provides a lot of information with its architectural structure of the Ottoman period. The mosque has a large dome, and when I started researching the size of this dome on the internet, I learned that it was 42.30 meters and its diameter was 31.30 meters.
Since the mosque is currently under restoration (without losing its originality), when I show you the photos of the interior design, you will see that there are rebars.
Information about the interior design of the mosque:
One of the most well-known motifs of Selimiye Mosque is the inverted tulip motif. The reason for this tulip motif is explained as follows, with the information given today. The owner of the land on which the mosque would be built was a tulip grower and initially did not want to sell this land. Later, he said that he could sell the land on which the mosque would be built, on the condition that he added a tulip motif to the mosque, so Mimar Sinan, who built this mosque, accepted this offer and implemented it.
Selimiye Mosque was included in the UNESCO list in 2000, and took its place on the UNESCO World Heritage list in 2011.
Mimar Sinan built the Mosque in an incredibly durable way, and many architects around the world even visited this place and took this design as an example in the buildings they built. Mimar Sinan built this mosque at the age of 90. Mimar Sinan called this mosque my masterpiece. You can see when you examine him that he is an incredible mathematical intelligence. According to the information I have obtained, 15 thousand people worked in the construction of this mosque. Although it is an incredible figure, the construction of the mosque took more than 6 years.
