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Description
Property Name: Takiyya al-Sulaymaniyya
Inventory No: 963-11-3
Date of infill of the inventory form: 2007-11-05
Country (State party): Syria
Province: Damascus
Town:
Geographic coordinates: 33° 30′ 45″ N
36° 17′ 28″ E
Historic Period: Classic Ottoman (1453-1579)
Year of Construction: 1559
Style: Classical Ottoman
Original Use: Mosque
Current Use: Mosque
Architect: Architect Sinan
Significance
Tekkiye Mosque is a part of Tekkiye complex. The mosque itself is one of the most qualified construction of Ottoman monuments in the city. It was built at the order of Suleyman the Magnificent, was planned by the Architect Sinan.
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 entire complex was restored in the 1960s by the Directorate General of Antiquities.
References
Degeorge, Gérard. Syrie: art-histoire-architecture. Paris: Hermann, 1994.
Ross Burns. Monuments Of Syria, IB Tauris, London, 1999
Archnet Web Site: http://archnet.org
Syria Gate Web Site: http://www.syriagate.com