The Ortakoy Mosque (ISTANBUL)

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Ortakoy Mosque (ISTANBUL)
Muhammad Khan Soomro
Ortakoy mosque is one of the iconic mosques in Tukey. It is located at the waterside of the Ortakoy pier square which is a famous spot for tourists as it is on the Bosphorus. It is almost in the water on the Bosphorus European Shore. This beautiful work of art is officially called Buyuk Mecidiye Camii (Grand Imperial Mosque of Sultan Abdulmecid) in Besiktas, Istanbul, Turkey. Ottoman Sultan Abdulmecid ordered the construction of the mosque. The mosque was built between 1854 and 1856. It was built on the site of a small mosque which was destroyed during the 1730 revolt. The architects who designed the mosque were Armenian architects, Garabet Amira Balyan and his son Nigogayos Balyan who is designer of the nearby Dolmabahce Palace …show more content…

The mosque is designed in the Neo-baroque style. Neo Baroque style is an architectural style of the late 19th century, also called the Second Empire Architecture in France. The mosque has a two story structure which was the sultan’s apartment; the sultan’s apartment is a ‘U’ shaped structure. Then there is the square shaped main structure which is the actual mosque and has the dome. This square shaped structure has the main chamber. The mosque has one dome and two minarets; each minaret has a single small balcony, reached by a flight of stairs. A minaret is a slender tower, minarets are part of the mosques, they have a balcony and usually summon to prayer is cried out from there. The entrance of the mosque is not very huge. On entering the mosque’s main chamber, the interior is so elegant and detailed that one cannot decide which part of the mosque should be observed first. There are magnificent crystal chandeliers hanging which are twinkling in the sunlit mosque. There are two rows of large windows through which the warm sunlight enters the mosque and illuminates the main area of the mosque. The light through the windows is refracted and has a

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