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Rüstem Pasha Caravanserai (Edirne)

Rüstem Pasha Caravanserai (Turkish: Rüstem Paşa Kervansarayı) is a caravanserai located in Edirne (formerly Adrianople in English), northwestern Turkey, commissioned by Ottoman statesman and grand vizier Rüstem Pasha and built by court architect Mimar Sinan in 1561. The building is used today as a hotel with 110 rooms, the interior having been remodelled in 2016–18. It is a two-storey rectangular construction with c…

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Edirne Province, Edirne Province, Turkey

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Mimar Sinan

1488-1588 · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey

Role: lead architect

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Mimar Sinan was the chief Ottoman architect and engineer, responsible for an extraordinary body of imperial mosques, bridges, and civic works that shaped classical Ottoman architecture.

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Mimar Sinan

studio · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey

Role: designer

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Mimar Sinan extends the corpus as a studio-level record for the Ottoman imperial architectural tradition across mosques, bridges, and large civic complexes.

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