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Description
Property Name: Atik Valide Mosque
Inventory No: 90-216-7
Date of infill of the inventory form: 2009-10-28
Country (State party): Turkey
Province: İstanbul
Town: Üsküdar
Geographic coordinates: 41° 1′ 7.79″ N
29° 1′ 26.02″ E
Historic Period: 16th century, 2nd half
Year of Construction: 1579 (completed), 1583 (expanded)
Style: Classical Ottoman
Original Use: Mosque
Current Use: Mosque
Architect: Architect Sinan
Significance
Atik Valide Sultan Mosque is a part of a complex including a mosque, medrese, dar-ül Hadis, tekke (dervish lodge), schools of Koran and Koranic Law, guesthouse, hospital, kitchen, kervansaray with large stables and a hamam. The complex was built for Princess Nurbanu who was the mother of Murat III and wife of Selim II. It is also called as Nurbanu Sultan Mosque. This largest complex after the Süleymaniye is built on a sloping ground on different levels. The plantype of the mosque includes six-piered dome system. The construction was expanded by Davut Ağa in 1583; two domes on each sides were added to the latecomers’ porch. Its tiles were renoved and the ceiling of the gallery on the entrance side is decorated with the original ornamental paintings. The mosque court is larger than others of the Classical Ottoman era.
Selection Criteria
vi. to be directly or tangibly associated with events or living traditions, with ideas, or with beliefs, with artistic and literary works of outstanding universal significance
State of Preservation
The mosque is enlarged after the completion of the whole complex. The interior is extended laterally. An alteration is done by the II. Mahmut period, ca. 1835; a sultan’s platform and a muezzin’s platform were added to the mosque. It was restored between 1956-72 by the General Directorate of Religious Endowments.Original plan (before enlargement); Kuran, Aptullah. SİNAN, Institute of Turkish Studies, Inc., Ada Press Publishers, İstanbul, 1985, p194
References
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Kuran, Aptullah. Sinan: The Grand Old Master Of Ottoman Architecture, Institute of Turkish Studies, Inc., Washington D.C. ; Ada Press Publishers, Istanbul, 1987.
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Kuban, Doğan. Sinan’s Art and Selimiye, The Economic and Social History Foundation, İstanbul, 1997.
Günay Reha, Sinan’s İstanbul, Metropolitan Municipality of Greater İstanbul, İstanbul 1987
Egli, Ernst. Sinan: Osmanlı Çağının Mimarı, Arkeoloji ve sanat yayınları, İstanbul, 2009
Website of Uskudar Muflulugu, http://www.uskudarmuftulugu.gov.tr