LOCATED IN SULEYMANIYE, ISTANBUL, TURKEY BUILT IN 16 TH CENTURY COMMISIONED BY SULTAN SÜLEYMAN, THE MAGNIFICENT DESIGNED BY ARCHITECT MIMAR SINAN MODELED IN PART ON THE STYLE OF A BYZANTINE BASILICA
(1) mosque, (2) mausoleum of Süleyman , (3) mausoleum of Hürrem , (4) Koran recitation school, (5) public fountain, (6) elementary school, (7) first ( evvel ) madrasa, (8) second ( sani ) madrasa, (9) remains of medical school, (10) hospital, (11) hospice, (12) guesthouse, (13) Sinan's tomb with domed sabil and empty plot of his endowed school and residence, (14) the janissary agha's residence, (15) third ( salis ) madrasa, (16) fourth ( rabi ) madrasa, (17) bathhouse, (18) hadith college, (19) madrasa near the palace of Fatma Sultan and Siyavus Pasa
IWAN
COURTYARD
Covered portico around mosque courtyard
MINARET
MOSQUE Constructed on 1550 and finished on 1557 59 meters in length and 58 meters in width with 4 minarets, having a total of 10 galleries indicating that Suleiman I was the 10th Ottoman sultan
PLAN AND SECTION
INTERIORS
DOME
POLYCHROME ARCH STAINED GLASS WINDOW
HONEYCOMB ORNAMENTATION
MARBLE COLUMNS
MAUSOLEUM OF SULTAN SULEYMAN
INTERIOR OF THE MAUSOLEUM OF EMPEROR SULEYMAN
MAUSOLEUM OF HURREM( WIFE OF SULEYMAN)
INTERIOR OF THE MAUSOLEUM OF SULTAN SULEYMAN
MADRASAH
TOMB OF SINAN, WITH SABIL AT CORNER
VIEW OF STREET WALL, WITH GRILL WINDOW BEFORE SINAN'S TOMB