List of mosques commissioned by the Ottoman dynasty

The list below contains some of the most important mosques in modern-day Turkey that were commissioned by the members of Ottoman imperial family. Some of these major mosques are also known as a selatin mosque, imperial mosque,[1] or sultanic mosque, meaning a mosque commissioned in the name of the sultan and, in theory, commemorating a military triumph.[2][3][4] Some mosques were commissioned by or dedicated to other members of the dynastic family, especially important women such as the mothers or wives of sultans.[5][6] Usually, only a sultanic mosque or a mosque commissioned by a queen mother (valide) was granted the privilege of having more than one minaret.[7]

The table

In the table below the first column shows the name, the second column shows the location, the third column shows the commissioner, the fourth column shows the architect and the fifth column shows the duration of construction.

Name Location Commissioner Architect Years
Hüdavendigar Mosque Bursa Murad I 1365–1385
Beyazıt I Mosque Bursa Bayezid I 1391–1395
Bursa Grand Mosque Bursa Bayezid I 1396–1400
Eski Mosque (Old Mosque) Edirne Süleyman Çelebi[a]
Mehmet I 		Haci Alaeddin
Ömer İbrahim 		1402–1414
Yeşil Mosque (Green Mosque) Bursa Mehmet I Hacı İvaz 1419–1421
Muradiye Complex[b] Bursa Murat II 1426
Darül Hadis Mosque Edirne Murat II 1435
Muradiye Mosque Edirne Murat II 1435–1436
Üç Şerefeli Mosque Edirne Murat II 1438–1447
Eyüp Sultan Mosque[c] Istanbul Mehmet II 1458
Fatih Mosque Istanbul Mehmed II Atik Sinan 1463–1471
Bayezid Complex Edirne Bayezid II Hayrettin 1484–1488
Bayezid Complex Amasya Şehzade Ahmet[d] 1486
Bayezid II Mosque Istanbul Bayezid II Yakup 1501–1506
Gülbahar Hatun Mosque[e] Trabzon Selim I ?–1514
Yavuz Selim Mosque Istanbul Selim I-Süleyman I Alaüddin (Acem Alisi) 1520/21–1527/8[8]
Sultan Mosque (Manisa) Manisa Hafsa Sultan[f] 1522
Şah Sultan Mosque Istanbul Şah Sultan[g] Mimar Sinan 1533
Haseki Sultan Mosque Istanbul Hürrem Sultan[h] Mimar Sinan 1538–1539, complex completed 1551, expanded 1612–13[9]
Şehzade Mosque[i] Istanbul Süleyman I Mimar Sinan 1543–1548[10]
Mihrimah Sultan Mosque (Üsküdar) Istanbul (Üsküdar) Mihrimah Sultan[j] Mimar Sinan 1543/4–1548[11]
Süleymaniye Mosque Istanbul Süleyman I Mimar Sinan 1548–1559[12]
Sulaymaniyya Takiyya Mosque Damascus Süleyman I Mimar Sinan 1559
Rüstem Pasha Mosque Istanbul Rüstem Pasha[k] Mimar Sinan 1561–1563
Mihrimah Sultan Mosque (Edirnekapı)[l] Istanbul (Edirnekapı) Mihrimah Sultan Mimar Sinan c. 1563–1570[13]
Sokollu Mehmet Pasha Mosque Istanbul (Kadırga) Ismihan Sultan[m] Mimar Sinan c. 1556/68–1571/72[14]
Selimiye Mosque Edirne Selim II Mimar Sinan 1568–1574[15]
Selimiye Mosque Karapınar Selim II Mimar Sinan 1563 [1]
Selimiye Mosque Konya Selim II Mimar Sinan (?) 1570 [2]
Atik Valide Camii (Old Valide Mosque) Istanbul (Üsküdar) Nurbanu Sultan[n] Mimar Sinan 1571–1583, expanded 1584–85/86[16]
Muradiye Mosque Manisa Murat III Mimar Sinan 1583–1586/87, complex completed 1590[17]
Yeni Camii (New Mosque) Istanbul (Eminönü) Safiye Sultan[o]

Turhan Sultan[p]

Mimar Davut Ağa
Mustafa Ağa

Dalgıç Ahmed Çavuş

1597–1665
Sultan Ahmet Mosque (Blue Mosque) Istanbul Ahmet I Sedefkar Mehmet Agha 1609–1616
Çinili Mosque Istanbul (Üsküdar) Kösem Sultan Koca Kasım Ağa 1638–1640
Yeni Valide Camii (New Valide Mosque) Istanbul (Üsküdar) Gülnuş Sultan[q] Hazerfan Mehmet 1708–1710
Nuruosmaniye Mosque Istanbul Mahmut I
Osman III 		Mustafa Ağa
Simon Kalfa 		1749–1755
Ayazma Mosque Istanbul Mustafa III 1757–1761[18]
Lâleli Mosque Istanbul Mustafa III Mehmet Tahir Ağa 1760–1783
Sultan Mustafa Mosque Istanbul Mustafa III 1763
Zeynep Sultan Mosque Istanbul Zeynep Sultan[r] Mehmet Tahir Ağa 1769
Beylerbeyi Mosque Istanbul Abdülhamit I Mehmet Tahir Ağa 1777–1778
Emirgan Mosque Istanbul Abdülhamit I 1781
Teşvikiye Mosque Istanbul Selim III
Abdülmecit I 		Krikor Balyan 1794–1854
Selimiye Mosque Istanbul Selim III 1805
Nusretiye Mosque Istanbul Mahmut II Krikor Balyan 1823–1826
Hırka'i Şerif Mosque[s] Istanbul Abdülmecit I 1847–1851
Dolmabahçe Mosque Istanbul Abdülmecit I - Bezmiâlem Sultan[t] Garabet Balyan 1853–1855
Ortaköy Mosque Istanbul Abdülmecit I Garabet Balyan
Nigoğayos Balyan 		1854–1856
Pertevniyal Mosque Istanbul Pertevniyal Sultan[u] Montani or Sarkis Balyan 1869–1871
Aziziye Mosque (Konya) Konya Pertevniyal Sultan 1872–1874
Yıldız Hamidiye Mosque Istanbul Abdülhamit II Sarkis Balyan 1884–1886

Mosques on the hills of Istanbul

Among those mosques in Istanbul some of them have been built on the traditional seven hills of the city (The numbers refer to the number of the hill.).

  1. Sultan Ahmed Mosque
  2. Nuruosmaniye Mosque
  3. Süleymaniye Mosque
  4. Fatih Mosque
  5. Yavuz Selim Mosque
  6. Mihrimah Sultan Mosque

Notes

  1. ^ Süleyman Çelebi: A contestant of throne during Ottoman Interregnum
  2. ^ Turkish: Külliye
  3. ^ Dedicated to Abu Ayyub al-Ansari, one of the earliest followers of Prophet who died during Arabic campaign to Istanbul
  4. ^ Bayezid's son (when he was a sanjak ruler)
  5. ^ Dedicated to Selim's mother Gülbahar Hatun
  6. ^ Hafsa: Mother of Süleyman I
  7. ^ Şah: Daughter of Selim I and Ayşe Hatun
  8. ^ Hürrem: Mother of Selim II
  9. ^ Dedicated to Süleyman's son Şehzade Mehmed who died young
  10. ^ Mihrimah: Daughter of Süleyman I and Hürrem Sultan
  11. ^ Rüstem: Husband of Mihrimah Sultan, son-in-law of Süleyman I and Hürrem Sultan
  12. ^ She commissioned two mosques, the first on the Asiatic and the second on the European sides of the Bosphorous
  13. ^ Ismihan: Daughter of Selim II and Nurbanu Sultan, wife of grand vizier Sokollu Mehmed Pasha
  14. ^ Nurbanu: Mother of Murat III
  15. ^ Safiye: Mother of Mehmet III
  16. ^ Turhan Hatice: Mother of Mehmet IV
  17. ^ Gülnuş: Mother of Ahmet III
  18. ^ Zeynep: Daughter of Ahmet III
  19. ^ Holy Mantle is kept in this mosque
  20. ^ Bezmialem: Mother of Abdülmecit
  21. ^ Pertevniyal: Mother of Abdülaziz

References

  1. ^ Goodwin 1971, p. 459.
  2. ^ Necipoğlu 2005, pp. 59–69.
  3. ^ Rüstem 2019, pp. 112–119.
  4. ^ Cagaptay, Soner (2019). Erdogan's Empire: Turkey and the Politics of the Middle East. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 287. ISBN 978-1-78673-597-3.
  5. ^ Necipoğlu 2005.
  6. ^ Rüstem 2019.
  7. ^ Necipoğlu 2005, pp. 121–122.
  8. ^ Necipoğlu 2005, pp. 93–94.
  9. ^ Necipoğlu 2005, pp. 268–272.
  10. ^ Necipoğlu 2005, pp. 191–207.
  11. ^ Necipoğlu 2005, pp. 301–305.
  12. ^ Necipoğlu 2005, pp. 222–230.
  13. ^ Necipoğlu 2005, pp. 305–314.
  14. ^ Necipoğlu 2005, pp. 335–339.
  15. ^ Necipoğlu 2005, pp. 238–256.
  16. ^ Necipoğlu 2005, pp. 280–293.
  17. ^ Necipoğlu 2005, pp. 257–265.
  18. ^ Rüstem 2019, p. 172.

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