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 "id": "building/blue-mosque",
 "class": "building",
 "slug": "blue-mosque",
 "label": {
  "ar": "جامع السلطان أحمد",
  "en": "Sultan Ahmed Mosque (Blue Mosque)",
  "ur": "مسجد سلطان احمد"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "جامع السلطان أحمد الأول بإسطنبول؛ أمر السلطان أحمد الأول سنة 1609م المعماري محمد آغا بالبدء فيه شرق الهيبودروم القديم، واكتمل سنة 1616م، وله ست مآذن {cite:freely-ottoman-architecture-2011}.",
  "en": "The Sultan Ahmed Mosque (Blue Mosque) of Istanbul; Ahmed I directed the architect Mehmet Agha to begin it in 1609 on the eastern side of the ancient Hippodrome, completed 1616, with six minarets {cite:freely-ottoman-architecture-2011}."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "objects"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "anatolia-balkans"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/gunpowder-empires"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "architecture"
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "mosque",
  "external_ids": {
   "wikidata": "Q138388"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/freely-ottoman-architecture-2011"
  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "wikidata-import deferred Q138388; Freely 2011 foundation account verified in OCR (pp. ~346-348: 1609 directive, Mehmet Agha, 1616 completion, six minarets)",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 Medium)",
   "run": "wd-deferred-6"
  },
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 3,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 Medium)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "جامع السلطان أحمد — المسجد الأزرق — من أواخر جوامع الدولة العثمانية الكلاسيكية؛ أمر به السلطان أحمد الأول فباشر المعماري محمد آغا بناءه سنة 1609م شرق الهيبودروم، واكتمل بمؤسساته سنة 1616م {cite:freely-ottoman-architecture-2011}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "العمارة",
     "markdown": "يصف فريلي جامع السلطان أحمد بأنه من أبهج جوامع المدينة، بسلسلة قبابه وأشباه قبابه ومآذنه الست الرشيقة التي تؤطر الزوايا {cite:freely-ottoman-architecture-2011}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "building/blue-mosque",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-22"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "The Sultan Ahmed Mosque — the Blue Mosque — is among the last imperial mosques of the classical Ottoman age; Ahmed I had the architect Mehmet Agha begin it in 1609 east of the ancient Hippodrome, and it was completed with its pious foundations in 1616 {cite:freely-ottoman-architecture-2011}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "In the sources",
     "markdown": "Freely describes it as among the city's most splendid mosques, with its cascade of domes and semidomes and six slender minarets accentuating the corners {cite:freely-ottoman-architecture-2011}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "building/blue-mosque",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Devin (SWE-2 Medium), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-22"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "جامعِ سلطان احمد — بلیو مسجد — کلاسیکی عثمانی دور کی آخری شاہی مساجد میں سے ہے؛ سلطان احمد اول کے حکم پر معمار محمد آغا نے 1609ء میں قدیم ہیپوڈروم کے مشرقی جانب اس کی تعمیر شروع کی اور یہ 1616ء میں مکمل ہوئی {cite:freely-ottoman-architecture-2011}۔"
    },
    {
     "heading": "مآخذ میں",
     "markdown": "فریلی اسے شہر کی شاندار ترین مساجد میں شمار کرتا ہے، گنبدوں اور نیم گنبدوں کے سلسلے اور چھ باریک میناروں کے ساتھ {cite:freely-ottoman-architecture-2011}۔"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "building/blue-mosque",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Devin (SWE-2 Medium), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-22"
  }
 },
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-23",
 "connections": [],
 "related": [
  "building/abu-dulaf-mosque-samarra",
  "building/adana-great-mosque",
  "building/ahi-celebi-mosque",
  "building/al-aqmar-mosque",
  "building/al-attarine-madrasa",
  "building/al-jami-al-kabir-samarra",
  "building/al-janad-mosque",
  "building/al-mansur-mosque-marrakesh"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}