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Sokollu Mehmed Pasha Mosque, Azapkapı

The Sokollu Mehmed Pasha Mosque (Turkish: Sokollu Mehmet Paşa Camii) is a 16th-century Ottoman mosque located in Istanbul, Turkey. The mosque is situated in Azapkapı neighborhood of Beyoğlu district in Istanbul. It is directly beside the Atatürk Bridge across the Golden Horn, but there was no bridge here at the time the mosque was built. It was designed by Ottoman imperial architect Mimar Sinan (c. 1488/1490-1588) a…

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1577

Istanbul Province, Istanbul Province, Turkey

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Mimar Sinan

1488-1588 · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey

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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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studio · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey

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