Rüstem Pasha Mosque
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| Basic information | |
| Location | Istanbul, Turkey |
| Geographic coordinates | 41°01′03″N 28°58′07″E / 41.0175°N 28.96861°E |
| Religious affiliation | Islam |
| Architectural description | |
| Architect(s) | Mimar Sinan |
| Architectural type | mosque |
| Groundbreaking | 1561 |
| Year completed | 1563 |
| Specifications | |
| Minaret(s) | 1 |
| Materials | granite, marble |
The Rüstem Pasha Mosque (Turkish: ' Rüstem Pasha Camii') is an Ottoman mosque located in Hasırcılar Çarşısı (Strawmat Weavers Market) in Eminönü, Istanbul, Turkey. [1]
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[edit] History
The Rüstem Pasha Mosque was designed by Ottoman imperial architect Mimar Sinan for Grand Vizier Damat Rüstem Pasha (husband of one of the daughters of Suleiman the Magnificent, Princess Mihrimah). Its building took place from 1561 to 1563. [2]
[edit] Architecture
[edit] Exterior
The mosque was built on a high terrace over a complex of vaulted shops, whose rents were intended to financially support the mosque complex. Narrow, twisting interior flights of steps in the corners give access to a spacious courtyard. The mosque has a double porch with five domed bays, from which projects a deep and low roof supported by a row of columns. [3]
[edit] Interior
The Rüstem Pasha Mosque is famous for its large quantities of exquisite İznik tiles, set in a very wide variety of beautiful floral and geometric designs, which cover not only the façade of the porch but also the mihrab, minbar, walls, columns and on the façade of the porch outside. These tiles exhibit the use of a tomato-red color characteristic of the early Iznik period (1555-1620), and no other mosque in Istanbul makes such a lavish use of these tiles. [4] The Mosque, and specifically the tiles, feature in an article by John Carswell in Cornucopia.[1]
The plan of the building is basically that of an octagon inscribed in a rectangle. The main dome rests on four semi-domes; not on the axes but in the diagonals of the building. The arches of the dome spring from four octagonal pillars— two on the north, two on the south— and from piers projecting from the east and west walls. To the north and south are galleries supported by pillars and by small marble columns between them. [3]
[edit] See also
[edit] Gallery
 Arcade. |
 Decorated tiles. |
 Decorated tiles. |
 Decorated tiles. |
 Inside view. |
 Inside view. |
 Mihrab. |
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[edit] References
- Denny, Walter B. (2005). Iznik: The Artistry of Ottoman Ceramics. Thames & Hudson. ISBN 0500511926.
- Faroqhi, Suraiyah (2005). Subjects of the Sultan: Culture and Daily Life in the Ottoman Empire. I B Tauris. ISBN 1850437602.
- Freely, John (2000). Blue Guide Istanbul. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0393320146.
- Rogers, J.M. (2007). Sinan: Makers of Islamic Civilization. I B Tauris. ISBN 184511096X.
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