Abstract
The works of the Ottoman Empire?s Master Architect Sinan that he attached great importance to and produced the greatest in number were mosques. Mimar Sinan made use of multiple-support systems such as 4, 6 and 8-baldachins in his domed structures, planning the layouts of his domed buildings around the framework of these systems. In this article, five of Mimar Sinan?s square baldachin, singledomed mosques (Edirnekap? Mihrimah Sultan, Zal Mahmut Pasha, L?leburgaz Sokullu Mehmet Pasha, Fatih Bali Pasha and Manisa Muradiye) are selected, aiming to present an essay on the observed influence of Byzantine architecture in the domed square-baldachin and adjacent spaces that form the main area of these buildings.
Highlights
The works of the Ottoman Empire’s Master Architect Sinan that he attached great importance to and produced the greatest in number were mosques
Five of Mimar Sinan’s square baldachin, single- covering over their structures, are the principal architecdomed mosques
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Summary
The works of the Ottoman Empire’s Master Architect Sinan that he attached great importance to and produced the greatest in number were mosques. Another structure that Mimar Koca Sinan has forsystem, together with its main piers and its suspended mulated with a square baldachin on a broad layout exarches, creating a domed central space, raised with panding along its breadth is in Eyüp, a building that is load-bearing piers and arches with two galleries on either side, lower in height (adjacent gathering places) On the north side of the suspended arches, nestled in the depth provided by the minaret base, is the stairwell leading up to the women’s gallery.[7] The walls of the building comprise suspended arches with steps and windows on the curtain walls between the piers on four sides Another of Mimar Sinan’s square baldachin singledomed structures is Fatih Bali Pasha Mosque, built during the era of Suleyman I. Sinan has placed wall footings at the four corners of the structure and the corner walls are connected with suspended arches, forming an exact or almost-exact square plan
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