List of mosques commissioned by the Ottoman dynasty

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,^[1] or sultanic mosque, meaning a mosque commissioned in the name of the sultan and, in theory, commemorating a military triumph.^[2][3][4] 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.^[5][6] Usually, only a sultanic mosque or a mosque commissioned by a queen mother (valide) was granted the privilege of having more than one minaret.^[7]

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.

Name	Location	Commissioner	Architect	Years
Hüdavendigar Mosque	Bursa	Murad I		1365–1385
Beyazıt I Mosque	Bursa	Bayezid I		1391–1395
Bursa Grand Mosque	Bursa	Bayezid I		1396–1400
Eski Mosque (Old Mosque)	Edirne	Süleyman Çelebi[a] Mehmet I	Haci Alaeddin Ömer İbrahim	1402–1414
Yeşil Mosque (Green Mosque)	Bursa	Mehmet I	Hacı İvaz	1419–1421
Muradiye Complex[b]	Bursa	Murat II		1426
Darül Hadis Mosque	Edirne	Murat II		1435
Muradiye Mosque	Edirne	Murat II		1435–1436
Üç Şerefeli Mosque	Edirne	Murat II		1438–1447
Eyüp Sultan Mosque[c]	Istanbul	Mehmet II		1458
Fatih Mosque	Istanbul	Mehmed II	Atik Sinan	1463–1471
Bayezid Complex	Edirne	Bayezid II	Hayrettin	1484–1488
Bayezid Complex	Amasya	Şehzade Ahmet[d]		1486
Bayezid II Mosque	Istanbul	Bayezid II	Yakup	1501–1506
Gülbahar Hatun Mosque[e]	Trabzon	Selim I		?–1514
Yavuz Selim Mosque	Istanbul	Selim I-Süleyman I	Alaüddin (Acem Alisi)	1520/21–1527/8[8]
Sultan Mosque (Manisa)	Manisa	Hafsa Sultan[f]		1522
Şah Sultan Mosque	Istanbul	Şah Sultan[g]	Mimar Sinan	1533
Haseki Sultan Mosque	Istanbul	Hürrem Sultan[h]	Mimar Sinan	1538–1539, complex completed 1551, expanded 1612–13[9]
Şehzade Mosque[i]	Istanbul	Süleyman I	Mimar Sinan	1543–1548[10]
Mihrimah Sultan Mosque (Üsküdar)	Istanbul (Üsküdar)	Mihrimah Sultan[j]	Mimar Sinan	1543/4–1548[11]
Süleymaniye Mosque	Istanbul	Süleyman I	Mimar Sinan	1548–1559[12]
Sulaymaniyya Takiyya Mosque	Damascus	Süleyman I	Mimar Sinan	1559
Rüstem Pasha Mosque	Istanbul	Rüstem Pasha[k]	Mimar Sinan	1561–1563
Mihrimah Sultan Mosque (Edirnekapı)[l]	Istanbul (Edirnekapı)	Mihrimah Sultan	Mimar Sinan	c. 1563–1570[13]
Sokollu Mehmet Pasha Mosque	Istanbul (Kadırga)	Ismihan Sultan[m]	Mimar Sinan	c. 1556/68–1571/72[14]
Selimiye Mosque	Edirne	Selim II	Mimar Sinan	1568–1574[15]
Selimiye Mosque	Karapınar	Selim II	Mimar Sinan	1563
Selimiye Mosque	Konya	Selim II	Mimar Sinan (?)	1570
Atik Valide Camii (Old Valide Mosque)	Istanbul (Üsküdar)	Nurbanu Sultan[n]	Mimar Sinan	1571–1583, expanded 1584–85/86[16]
Muradiye Mosque	Manisa	Murat III	Mimar Sinan	1583–1586/87, complex completed 1590[17]
Yeni Camii (New Mosque)	Istanbul (Eminönü)	Safiye Sultan[o] Turhan Sultan[p]	Mimar Davut Ağa Mustafa Ağa Dalgıç Ahmed Çavuş	1597–1665
Sultan Ahmet Mosque (Blue Mosque)	Istanbul	Ahmet I	Sedefkar Mehmet Agha	1609–1616
Çinili Mosque	Istanbul (Üsküdar)	Kösem Sultan	Koca Kasım Ağa	1638–1640
Yeni Valide Camii (New Valide Mosque)	Istanbul (Üsküdar)	Gülnuş Sultan[q]	Hazerfan Mehmet	1708–1710
Nuruosmaniye Mosque	Istanbul	Mahmut I Osman III	Mustafa Ağa Simon Kalfa	1749–1755
Ayazma Mosque	Istanbul	Mustafa III		1757–1761[18]
Lâleli Mosque	Istanbul	Mustafa III	Mehmet Tahir Ağa	1760–1783
Sultan Mustafa Mosque	Istanbul	Mustafa III		1763
Zeynep Sultan Mosque	Istanbul	Zeynep Sultan[r]	Mehmet Tahir Ağa	1769
Beylerbeyi Mosque	Istanbul	Abdülhamit I	Mehmet Tahir Ağa	1777–1778
Emirgan Mosque	Istanbul	Abdülhamit I		1781
Teşvikiye Mosque	Istanbul	Selim III Abdülmecit I	Krikor Balyan	1794–1854
Selimiye Mosque	Istanbul	Selim III		1805
Nusretiye Mosque	Istanbul	Mahmut II	Krikor Balyan	1823–1826
Hırka'i Şerif Mosque[s]	Istanbul	Abdülmecit I		1847–1851
Dolmabahçe Mosque	Istanbul	Abdülmecit I - Bezmiâlem Sultan[t]	Garabet Balyan	1853–1855
Ortaköy Mosque	Istanbul	Abdülmecit I	Garabet Balyan Nigoğayos Balyan	1854–1856
Pertevniyal Mosque	Istanbul	Pertevniyal Sultan[u]	Montani or Sarkis Balyan	1869–1871
Aziziye Mosque (Konya)	Konya	Pertevniyal Sultan		1872–1874
Yıldız Hamidiye Mosque	Istanbul	Abdülhamit II	Sarkis Balyan	1884–1886

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.