Istanbul’s Blue Mosque was built by Sultan Ahmed I to rival the city’s Hagia Sophia. An Ottoman masterpiece, it was at one ...

Mimar Sinan, an undisputedly greatest architect of the Ottoman era, constructed supporting blocks and minarets around Hagia ...

"In this book, Patricia Blessing explores the emergence of Ottoman architecture in the fifteenth century and its connection with broader geographical contexts. Analyzing how transregional exchange ...

Since the Ottoman conquest of Istanbul in 1453, the Turkish empire built many mosques from Fatih to Suleymaniye and ...