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Selimiye Mosque in Edirne, Turkey, March 2006
One of the great contributions Islamic empires made to the world came in the form of architecture. The building shown here, the Selimiye Mosque in Edirne, Turkey, was built in the sixteenth century by Sinan, the most famous architect of the Ottoman Empire. It was the building he considered to be his masterpiece, and is considered one of the finest examples of Islamic architecture in the world. Through buildings in Africa, Europe, India, and many, many places throughout the Middle East, Muslim empires left a rich architectural legacy that still attests to the widespread influence they have on cultures across the world.
Name: Selimiye Mosque
Material: Photograph
Size: 708 x 912 pixels (1.42 MB)
Date: March 2006
Place of Origin: Edirne, Turkey
Location: Wikimedia Commons
Source and Registration#: Link to resource
(accessed April 30, 2010).
Attribution: Work of Eye of Einstein.
Official License: Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 License
A. Holly Shissler
Associate Professor of Ottoman and Modern Turkish History, University of Chicago
Erin L. Glade
Ph.D. candidate, University of Chicago
