Selimiye Mosque Selimiye Mosque is the most important

Selimiye Mosque

Selimiye Mosque is the most important and , at the same time, the most famous historical monument of Edirne.

Selimiye Mosque This Ottoman İmperial mosque was designed by Mimar Sinan. Selimiye Mosque was built between fifteen sixty six(1566) and fifteen seventy four(1574) on the order of Sultan Selim the second.

Selimiye Mosque is considered to be Mimar Sinan’s finest peace of the work and culmination of İslamıc architecture in the Ottoman Empire. It was planned as a part of the entire architectual complex, known as a Külliye consisting of the Mosque, two medreses, a covered bazaar, a clock tower, numerous cour yards and a library. And there are three entrances to courtyards; North, east and West.

SELİMİYE MOQUE The original appearance of the interior’s decoration was different from what we see today. The interior has been repainted through the centuries and was extensively restored in the 20 th century. However, the brilliant, polychrome Iznik tiles, the epitome of Ottoman decoration, and whose motifs include iconography such as saz leaves and Chinese clouds, remain largely untouched since the 16 th century.

The Selimiye Mosque has four minarets.

Minaret is a kind of tower of mosque.

Four minarets seem as two from enterance of city. Because minarets are parallel.

The mosque is huge there are interesting handiwork. The placement of the muezzin’s platform, under the center of the dome is very unusual. Also, ın the centre of the courtyard is a 12 -sided fountain.

In the middle of the mosque, there is a reverse tulip on the marble. It has a long historical story. The mosque is decaroted with İznik tiles. The architecture Sinan give impotance to acustic. The architecture Sinan designed them especially.