1/6 · Exterior · Edirne (Turkey)Photo: Jorge Franganillo · CC BY 2.0 · source
2/6 · ExteriorPhoto: Khirashima · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
3/6 · Exterior · Selimiye Mosque in Edirne, TurkeyPhoto: Khirashima · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
4/6 · Exterior · DSC09474Photo: rob Stoeltje from loenen, netherlands · CC BY 2.0 · source
5/6 · Interior · Coloured windowPhoto: Dosseman · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
6/6 · Interior · View of Selimiye mosque in Edirne, TurkeyPhoto: İhsan Deniz Kılıçoğlu · CC BY-SA 3.0 · source
Religious · Historic precedent
Selimiye Mosque
Mimar Sinan · Edirne, Türkiye · 1575
Key featuresEight piers in an octagon carry one wide dome over a single, unified prayer space.
- Architect
- Mimar Sinan
- Place
- Edirne, Türkiye
- Year
- 1575
- Typology
- Religious
- Movement
- Historic precedent
- Region
- Middle East
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