- Central Dome Mosques
Based on Four Supports with Two or More Half-Domes:
- The Suleymaniye
Mosque and Kulliye (1550-57): The largest Ottoman half-domed
mosque, it sits on the top of the sixth hill that dominates the city
and cascades down in a pyramidical arrangement of its domes, half-domes,
counterweights, and butresses. The mosque forms the center of a kulliye
with a dar al-hadith, four madrasas,
an imaret, a tabkhane,
a mektab, a medical school (tibb medrese), bath, fountain, and the mausolea
of the founder, his wife, and Sinan himself (in a corner).
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