North facade with the forecourt and the central fountain |
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Perhaps the main social legacy structures arranged on the Third Hill of Istanbul, Turkey, is the Süleymaniye Mosque (Turkish: Süleymaniye Camii, Turkish articulation: sylej'ma?nije). It is the biggest in the city of Istanbul and furthermore brags of a standout amongst other known scenes in the city. It is a majestic Ottoman mosque, and Suleiman the Magnificent appointed the mosque, planned by the supreme draftsman Mimar Sinan (the best designer of the Ottoman Empire). An engraving shows the date of the establishment as 1550 and the date of the initiation as 1557. It is likewise quite possibly the main Ottoman-period structures. Close to the Spice Bazaar and the Grand Bazaar is the mosque.
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