protection of UNESCO on the list, tulip garden, Selimiye Mosque in Edirne

protection of UNESCO on the list, tulip garden, Selimiye Mosque in Edirne

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Selimiye Mosque in Edirne, 2 Selim mosque built by Mimar Sinan. Sinan, 90 (of 80 passes in some books) years of age, and his "best piece" says both of Mimar Sinan Selimiye Mosque is one of the most prominent works of the Ottoman architecture.

The construction according to the inscription of the mosque's door 1568 (AH: 976) was started in. Planned, but the opening of the mosque on Friday, November 27, 1574 II. Following the death of Selim was opened for worship on March 14 1575'te.

Ownership, Sultan Selim Stiftung. Today, the area of the mosque in the heart of the city began the construction period Suleyman Celebi, subsequently developed Edirne Bayezid I the first palace (Saray-i steel), and there was the harem of Baltaci Guards. In this area, "Sarıbayır" or "Poplar Square," he mentioned.

Edirne Why?

Sultan mosque in Edirne to be made as to why the city chose not known precisely. Evliya Celebi in his Book of the Prophet of Islam Muhammad, he saw the sultan's dream and a mosque to commemorate the conquest of Cyprus, which it wants yaptırmasını wrote. However, three years after the initiation of construction of the mosque of Cyprus in 1571 the conquest of truth to this claim can not be known. Commenting on this issue is more realistic at that time a large new mosque in Istanbul, they are not needed, and Selim in Edirne in Rumelia is the center of Ottoman rule in the city since youth he exuded love, attention is drawn separately.

Prince Çıraklığımı Mosque in Istanbul, I did. I completed the Süleymaniye Mosque Kalfalığımı. But all my power supplies and an expert in the living and the Mosque of Sultan Selim Khan declared. (Mimar Sinan)

Dome

Perched on top of earlier no Selimiye mosque, or temple of ancient times used an unprecedented technique. Previous domed structures, the main dome, despite the gradual rise over a half-domes, the Selimiye Mosque, 43.25 meters high, 31.25 meters in diameter, covered with a single Water Front. The dome on 8 columns, based on a pulley oturtulmuştur.Kasnak, filayaklarına depends on 6 meters wide arches. Sinan, it covered the interior space at a time along the width and commodiously provides easily understood. The Dome of the mosque at the same time also determines the outward appearance of the main lines.

Minarets

Each of the four corners of the mosque minarets with three balconies 70.89 meters high, 380 centimeters in diameter. According to some sources, including the height of the minarets world 84, 85 Another was to some meters. Two near the door of the minaret şerefelerine sentence thrown three separate exits. Other two minarets, one staircases. Stone carvings of two pit in front of the minaret, minarets, the carvings in the middle of the fluffier. To be close to the dome of the minaret of a mosque, such as stab up towards the sky shows the most important feature of the mosque of Edirne, all by the storms.

Interior decorations

Mosque's marble, tiles and calligraphic craftsmanship is also important. Inside of the building is decorated with Iznik tiles. Sovereign gallery at the bottom of the Great Dome, 12 marble columns wide and 2 meters in height. Some of the tiles 1877-1878 Ottoman-Russian War, the Russian general Mikhail Skobelev was taken to Moscow by the removed.

Courtyard

Structure, to the north, south, and there are 3 doors opens onto the courtyard. The inner courtyard, is decorated with colonnades and domes. Worked diligently in the middle of the courtyard is a fountain of marble. The outer courtyard of the primary school, Darul kurra, Darul Hadith, madrasa and soup kitchen is located. Primary school children's library today, a theological school used as a museum. In the past, the mosque was lighted with torches. Torches that is, to create air flow through a hole out of the firms with a specially made.

"Inverted tulip" motif

Under one of the marble pillars of the mosque muezzin mahfilinin reverse is a tulip motif. According to tradition, the mosque is a tulip garden on the land had done. This is the owner of the land, initially did not want to sell arsasının. In the end, a tulip motif at the mosque to Mimar Sinan arsasını sold willingly. Mimar Sinan was the tulip motif in reverse. This plot is a tulip garden, tulip motif, is the opposite of the inversion represents the owner.

World Heritage List

June 28, 2011 on Tuesday, a UNESCO World Heritage Committee meeting in Paris of Edirne Selimiye Mosque and Complex, the World Heritage List, the nomination committee evaluated and unanimously decided to enter the Selimiye Mosque and Complex, the World Heritage List.

Thus, the work of the Ottoman Empire entered the World Heritage List for the first time. 

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name Hagia Sophia "Holy Wisdom" or "divine wisdom" in terms

name Hagia Sophia "Holy Wisdom" or "divine wisdom" in terms

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Hagia Sophia (Greek: Αγιά Σοφιά, full name: Ναός τῆς Ἁγίας τοῦ Θεοῦ Σοφίας, Latin: Sancta Sophia or Sancta Sapientia), The Byzantine Emperor Anno Domini by Justinian 532 to 537 between the old city center of Istanbul's historic peninsula, the patriarch's cathedral is a basilica built displaced, receipt of Istanbul by the Turks in 1453 turned into a mosque by Sultan Mehmet the Conqueror and today serves as a museum.

Hagia Sophia , in terms of architecture, with a basilica plan, incorporating a central plan, a domed basilica with a dome-type structure and properties of the transition and the structural system is considered to be a turning point in the history of architecture.

The building, called "Sofia" is not the word to any one name, the ancient Greek "wisdom" is the meaning of the word sophos. Therefore, "Hagia Sophia" is called "holy wisdom" or "divine wisdom" is a means, Orthodoxy, God mezhepinde 'is considered one of the three qualities.of the 6th century the famous architect of Milet and Tralles'li Isidoros Anthemius'un , directed the construction of St. Sophia's approximately 10,000 workers worked Justinian spent a great fortune, and is specified for the job. This is a very old building, used to make a feature of some of the columns, doors and stone buildings and temples, is the introduction of an older structure. Byzantine period Patriarch of Constantinople, the patriarch in the church and the Eastern Orthodox Church was the center of the Hagia Sophia, once a major natural as the "holy relics" consisted of a collection.

After the Ottoman sultan Mehmet the Conqueror converted the church into a mosque in 1453, showed great tolerance mozayiklerinden containing human figures have not been destroyed (as in not containing the left), only a thin stucco plaster covered and the centuries under the remaining mozayikler thus survived destruction of natural and artificial. A mosque converted into a museum is a part of the plaster removed and brought to light again mozayikler. In short, all the peoples of the world today to see this mozayikleri owes to a person: he, the art of showing love and respect for other religions, the sultan of the Ottoman Sultan Mehmet'tir. Today, essentially the same place in the building of the Hagia Sophia church was built for the third time that the Hagia Sophia is also known as the Third. The first two churches were destroyed during the riots. Sophia is the largest dome in the period of the central dome collapsed several times during the Byzantine period, from adding you ever collapsed because of Mimar Sinan building retaining walls.

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Regarded as a work of Mimar Sinan's Suleymaniye Mosque, the transfer of a journeyman

Regarded as a work of Mimar Sinan's Suleymaniye Mosque, the transfer of a journeyman

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Suleymaniye Mosque is one of the most important examples of classical Ottoman architecture. The construction of more than a hundred earthquakes take place in Istanbul to this day, although the walls of the mosque there is no crack in the slightest. 53 m. The dome of the mosque built on four pillars in height and 27.5 m in diameter. This is the main canopy, the Haghia Sophia, as evidenced by the two half-domes are supported. Drum of the dome has 32 windows. There are four corner of the courtyard of a mosque minaret. This is adjacent to the mosque minarets with three balconies and two of 76 m. height, the mosque's courtyard, where the northern corner of the entrance façade of the wall in the corner of soncemaat other two balconies and two minarets is 56 m high.

Mosque, built in accordance with the air flow in the clean up job of edilmiştir.Yani mosque lamp, an oil-lamps of the tasks have to create an air flow that provides a single point, the collection has been built. Room on the main entrance door of the mosque, the works were collected and the ink used in the construction works.

Supported the main support pillars and domes

Portico surrounded the mosque's courtyard, a fountain in the middle of 28 are rectangular in shape. In the southern side of the mosque where the Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent and his wife Hurrem a ready available. The dome of the tomb of Suleyman the stars to give the image of armed sky, from the inside, metallic plates located between the diamonds (diamonds) are decorated.

To decorate the mosque has a simple structure. Wall of the mihrab is decorated with stained glass windows. Windows on either side of the mihrab, tile medallions in the Surah al-Fatah, the main dome of the mosque is located in the middle of writing the Qur'an. Calligrapher Hasan Çelebi mosque.

There are four minarets of the Suleymaniye Mosque. This is because the fourth sultan Suleiman the Magnificent in Istanbul after the conquest, the tenth sultan of the Ottoman Empire, this is an indication that the four minaredeki on şerefininde.

Fatih complex of the Suleymaniye mosque complex in the second largest after the Ottoman complexes külliyesidir. Peninsula in the complex are the Golden Horn in Istanbul, Marmara, Topkapi Palace and was built on the highest hill in the middle of the Bosphorus. Mosques, madrassas, hospital, Darülhadis, fountain, darülkurra, DARUZZIYAFE, hospices, baths, guest rooms on the library, and shops in the outer courtyard of the tomb of Sinan the Architect of the kulliye humble in the face of the walls of the small building. Smokers Market, which surrounds the two madrasas, on the back on the road are two small houses.

"Tiryakiler Market square, bearing the name of a long thin horizontal one-story front-madrasahs, each with a window, the inner chambers of the dome alatında charitable establishment, settled for less in an ascetic attitude of the facade, the architect of Sultan Külliyesi'ndeki madrasa layout reminds decorative wall windows and dome arrays,"

Anakubbenin belt, the belt by Sinan kübra, (power belt) has been called. The courtyard platform, the Golden Horn side of the road yüksektedir.

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