Abstract
Ottoman architecture celebrated some of its greatest triumphs in three prominently sited Istanbul mosques-the 5ehzade Mehmed mosque (1543-48), the Sultan Ahmed I or Blue mosque (1609-17), and the Yeni Cami (begun in the 1590's, completed in 1666)-built according to the quatrefoil or clover-leaf cross-in-square plan. This plan type gained great popularity, and representative examples of it can be seen from Diyarbakir in southeastern Anatolia to the city of Tunis and the island of Djerba at the extreme western boundary of the Ottoman world, with at least three examples in Greece as an intermediary stage. When in 1833 Muhammad 'Ali started work on his enormous
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