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General view of the single domed mosque with its two slender minarets. |
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View of the horseshoe-shaped frontal court of the mosque. |
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The highly ornamented Baroque fountain at the entrance of the mosque. |
| The Nuruosmaniye Mosque, Istanbul: Completed by Osman III in 1755, this is the first Baroque Ottoman mosque. Its prayer hall follows the rigid square, domed plan but its courtyard curves in a horseshoe form. |
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