Inner Courtyard

by Joan Carroll

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12.000 x 8.000 inches

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Inner Courtyard

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Joan Carroll

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Photograph - Digital Photograph

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The inner courtyard of the Mosque of Suleyman the Magnificent, in light and shadow. The Mosque of Suleyman the Magnificent (Suleymaniye Mosque; Suleymaniye Camii) is the second largest mosque in Istanbul and one of the best-known sights of the city. Construction was begun in 1550 and the mosque was finished in 1558, under the direction of the architectural genius of Sinan Pasha.The Suleyman complex blended Islamic and Byzantine architectural elements. It combines tall, slender minarets with large domed buildings supported by half domes in the style of the Byzantine church Hagia Sophia. The S�leymaniye is similar in magnificence to the Hagia Sophia and asserts Suleyman's historical importance. The structure is nevertheless smaller in size than the Hagia Sophia. The S�leymaniye was ravaged by a fire in 1660 and was restored by Sultan Mehmed IV. Part of the dome collapsed again during the earthquake of 1766. Subsequent repairs damaged what was left of the original decoration of Sinan. Recent cleaning has shown that Sinan experimented first with blue, before turning red the dominant color of the dome). As with other imperial mosques in Istanbul, the mosque itself is preceded by a monumental courtyard (avlu) on its west side, shown in this picture. The courtyard at the S�leymaniye is of exceptional grandeur with a colonnaded peristyle with columns of marble, granite and porphyry. At the four corners of the courtyard are the four minarets, a number only allowable to mosques endowed by a sultan. The minarets have a total of 10 galleries (serifes), which by tradition indicates that Suleiman I was the 10th Ottoman sultan.

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