Work
Süleymaniye Mosque
Explore in the Atlas →Mimar Sinan's imperial mosque complex for Süleyman the Magnificent crowns a hill of Istanbul with a vast cascading dome and a fully integrated külliye, the mature statement of classical Ottoman architecture.
Ritual Power Settlement
Details
- Type
- Building
- Location
- Istanbul, Turkey
Classifications
- Holder
- Individual
- Source of authority
- Revelation cosmology
- Subject
- Human centred
- Cosmological orientation
- Axis mundi
- Political position
- Hegemonic
- Degree of codification
- Highly codified
- Mode of transmission
- Apprenticeship
- Knowledge type
- Relational embodied
- Epistemic cluster
- Islamic mena
Connections
- exemplifies Islamic Architecture
- exemplifies Classical Ottoman Architecture
Referenced by
- Mimar Sinan authored
Sources
- Gülru Necipoğlu. The Age of Sinan: Architectural Culture in the Ottoman Empire. Reaktion Books, 2005.
- Doğan Kuban. Ottoman Architecture. Antique Collectors' Club, 2010.
Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "Süleymaniye Mosque." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/work/suleymaniye-mosque/. Accessed July 17, 2026.