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Fatih Mosque (in Turkish: Fatih Camii) is a mosque built during the reign of the Ottoman Empire, there is light in the area in the Turkish city of Istanbul, is a great example of Islamic architecture in Istanbul, Turkey, and represents an important stage of the evolution of ancient Turkish architecture. This mosque has been named on the name of Sultan Mehmet the Conqueror, the Ottoman Sultan who conquered Constantinople in 1453.
History
The Fatih Mosque building religiously and socially at the same time, its size and composition unparalleled, was built between 1463 and 1470 by order of Sultan Mehmet the Conqueror, at the site of Byzantine church had been destroyed and vandalized since the Fourth Crusade, no Muslims were destroyed. This mosque was built by the architect (Atiq Sinan) (in Turkish: Atik Sinan).
There are about Fatih Mosque group of buildings constructed plan well, and include these buildings: 8 schools, a library, a hospital, and the inn for travelers, Caroinsre (House for travelers), and the market, and public baths, and an elementary school, and a kitchen-year-old was providing food for the poor, has been added around many of graves or shrines later. The original building was built in the form of almost square, side length of about 325 meters runs along the Golden Horn.
Exposure to the original mosque serious damage because of the earthquake in 1509, but after that the fittest, but it was damaged again because of earthquakes in the years 1557 and 1754, and the fittest again. Then subjected to the mosque earthquake completely destroyed in the twenty-second of the month of May 1766, where the main dome collapsed walls and crashed irreparably. The current mosque was built on the basis of the scheme is completely different from the original mosque, and Finish built in 1771 during the reign of Sultan Mustafa III.
History
The Fatih Mosque building religiously and socially at the same time, its size and composition unparalleled, was built between 1463 and 1470 by order of Sultan Mehmet the Conqueror, at the site of Byzantine church had been destroyed and vandalized since the Fourth Crusade, no Muslims were destroyed. This mosque was built by the architect (Atiq Sinan) (in Turkish: Atik Sinan).
There are about Fatih Mosque group of buildings constructed plan well, and include these buildings: 8 schools, a library, a hospital, and the inn for travelers, Caroinsre (House for travelers), and the market, and public baths, and an elementary school, and a kitchen-year-old was providing food for the poor, has been added around many of graves or shrines later. The original building was built in the form of almost square, side length of about 325 meters runs along the Golden Horn.
Exposure to the original mosque serious damage because of the earthquake in 1509, but after that the fittest, but it was damaged again because of earthquakes in the years 1557 and 1754, and the fittest again. Then subjected to the mosque earthquake completely destroyed in the twenty-second of the month of May 1766, where the main dome collapsed walls and crashed irreparably. The current mosque was built on the basis of the scheme is completely different from the original mosque, and Finish built in 1771 during the reign of Sultan Mustafa III.
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