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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, or sultanic mosque, meaning a mosque commissioned in the name of the sultan and, in theory, commemorating a military triumph. 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. Usually, only a sultanic mosque or a mosque commissioned by a queen mother (valide) was granted the privilege of having more than one minaret.

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.

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.

Bibliography

• Goodwin, Godfrey (1971). A History of Ottoman Architecture. Thames & Hudson. ISBN 0-500-27429-0.
• Necipoğlu, Gülru (2005). The Age of Sinan: Architectural Culture in the Ottoman Empire. London: Reaktion Books. ISBN 978-1-86189-253-9.
• Rüstem, Ünver (2019). Ottoman Baroque: The Architectural Refashioning of Eighteenth-Century Istanbul. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691181875.

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