Süleymaniye Mosque
Name of Building
Süleymaniye Mosque
Town or City, Country where the building was originally established
Istanbul, Turkey
Date the building was designed and/or first built
Construction began: 1550
Construction completed: 1557
Construction completed: 1557
Name of Architect, Builder, or Primary Patron Responsible
Architect: Mimar Sinan (1488-1588)
Patron: Suleiman I (1520-1566)
Culturally Specific Time Period
Ottoman
Geo-Location
41.016233188957855, 28.963981828835625
Materials
Marble, wood, granite, porphyry
Cement, stainless steel
Size and/or Scale of Building
59 meters long by 58 meters wide.
Architectural Type
Religious
Formal Style
Mosque
Image source
Image 1: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:S%C3%BCleymaniyeMosqueIstanbul_(cropped).jpg
Image 2: Myrabella. Wikimedia.org. (2022). File:SüleymaniyeMosqueIstanbul (cropped).jpg - Wikimedia Commons. [online] Available at: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:S%C3%BCleymaniyeMosqueIstanbul_(cropped).jpg.
Image 3: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Istanbul_Suleymaniye_Mosque_Interior_2015_1312.jpg
Creative Commons or other copyright information
Image 1: Creative Commons
Image 2: CC BY-SA 3.0
Image 3: Dosseman, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Student First and Last Name
Brittany Lumanlan Martin
Citation
Architect: Mimar Sinan (1488-1588) and Patron: Suleiman I (1520-1566), “Süleymaniye Mosque,” World Architecture, accessed June 28, 2026, https://worldarchitecture.artinterp2.org/items/show/172.
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