The
Süleymaniye Mosque crowns one of İstanbul's seven hills and dominates the
Golden Horn, providing a landmark for the entire city.
Though it's not the
largest of the Ottoman mosques, it is certainly one of the grandest and most
beautiful.
It's also unusual in that many of its original külliye (mosque
complex) buildings have been retained and sympathetically adapted for reuse.
Commissioned
by Süleyman I, known as 'the Magnificent', the Süleymaniye was the fourth
imperial mosque built in İstanbul and it certainly lives up to its patron's
nickname.
The mosque and its surrounding buildings were designed by Mimar
Sinan, the most famous and talented of all imperial architects.
Sinan's türbe (tomb)
is just outside the mosque's walled garden, next to a disused medrese (seminary)
building.
--Lonely Planet
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