Detail View: Walter B. Denny World Art & Architecture Images:

ID_Number: 
WBD_02499
Creator name: 
Acem Ali
Creator dates: 
d. 1537
Creator nationality: 
Ottoman
Title: 
Yavuz Sultan Selim Mosque (Istanbul, Turkey), mihrab in prayer hall
Title: 
Yavuz Sultan Selim Camii (Istanbul, Turkey)
Title: 
Yavuz Selim Mosque
View description: 
full view
Date: 
1520-1528
Date type: 
completion date
Location: 
Istanbul, Turkey
Location type: 
site
Repository name: 
Yavuz Sultan Selim Camii (Istanbul, Turkey)
Repository name variant: 
Yavuz Sultan Selim Mosque
Repository location: 
Istanbul, Turkey
Style_Period: 
16th Century
Style_Period name variant: 
Sixteenth century
Style_Period: 
Ottoman (style)
Style_Period: 
Islamic (style and culture)
Subject: 
mosques (buildings)
Subject: 
religious building
Subject: 
Religions (belief systems)
Subject: 
Islam
Subject: 
Islamic architecture
Subject: 
buildings (structures)
Subject: 
Suleyman I, Sultan of the Turks, 149/5-1566
Subject: 
fathers
Subject: 
memorials (monuments)
Subject: 
interior
Subject: 
sanctuary (religious building space)
Subject: 
mihrab
Subject: 
qibla walls
Culture: 
Ottoman
Category: 
Architecture and City Planning
Category: 
Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design
Work_type: 
mosque
Work_type: 
sanctuaries (religious building spaces)
Work_type: 
muqarnas
Copy_Source: 
digital image
Image_Source: 
Walter Denny disk
Note: 
Commissioned by Suleyman the Magnificent to honor his father, Sultan Selim I
Rights Reproduction & Access: 
Copyrighted material--for educational use only
Filename: 
WBD_02499.tif