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Sultanahmed Mosque Complex (Blue Mosque)
Sultanahmet Camii Külliyesi (1609-1620) If the armies of the Fourth Crusade had not razed Constantinople in 1204, we would have enjoyed visiting the Palace of Daphne, the oldest part of the gorgeous Great Palace of Constantinople. However, now, thanks to Sultan Ahmed (1603-1617), we have another magnificent monument, built almost four centuries after the fourth…
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Arasta Bazaar
Arasta Çarşısı (Sipahi Çarşısı) The shop-lined street consisting of around eighty stores is a part of the Sultanahmet (Blue) Mosque Complex (Külliye). Built in 1617, this historical street is also called “Sipahi Çarşısı”, as the hardware of the Sipahi (Ottoman cavalry corps) were sold here during the Ottoman period. In Ottoman architecture, the stores of…
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Ottoman Architecture
The Ottomans, in their era, reached the highest level of architecture, achieving a perfect harmony between inner and outer spaces, as well as light and shadow. The architecture of the Ottoman Empire, first developed from the earlier Seljuk architecture, was influenced by different cultures over the years. When Ottomans expanded form Anatolia and Constantinople, to…
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Külliye (Mosque Complex)
Külliye (mosque complex) is a group of structures built around a mosque under a legal entity of endowment or foundation (in Turkish, vakıf). These charity organizations were established by the imperial family, high-level state dignitaries or wealthy people. The goal was for the fund to last indefinitely. They were a self-supporting system in which the…
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Ottoman Mosques
The large mosques built by the imperial family were called “selâtin cami”, meaning imperial mosque, which are located in the three Ottoman capitals, Bursa, Edirne and Istanbul. They are the equivalent of cathedrals in Christianity. If it was built by the vizier or any state dignitary, it is simply called “cami” (mosque), which are smaller…
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Medrese
Medrese (or madrasah), meaning “the place where lessons are given”, is a secondary or high school in Islamic countries. The first reference to medreses was the house in Medina where the Koran was taught. The house was called dârülkurrâ. The real medrese was opened in Nishabur in the Khorasan Province of Iran in 954, called…
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Carpet and Kilim
Carpet When archeologists discovered the Kurgan tombs in Pazyryk Valley in the Altay Mountains in East-Central Asia during excavations in 1947-49, they did not expect to unearth a Turkish carpet used by horse-riding pastoral nomads of the steppe. Presently known as the Pazyryk carpet, belonging to the 4th-3rd century BC, today, it is the oldest…
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Mosaic
Mosaic is an art form of pattern or picture created from the small pieces of glass, stone, or other materials in various colors. Those pieces, known as tesserae, are usually in the shape of a cube. Although the earliest known examples of mosaics were found in Mesopotamia dating to the late third millennium BC, mosaic…
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Mevlevi Sufi Order
After the death of Mevlâna Rumi in 1273 his son, Veled, and his disciples founded the Mevlevi Order to institutionalize his teachings. A branch of the Sufi tradition of Islam, the Mevlâna Order is based on the values of loving and being of service to people. The stunning ritual performed by the Mevlevi Order symbolizes…
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