At a glance
- Era
- The Gunpowder Empires
- Region
- Anatolia
- Identifiers
- Wikidata
- Review
- Draft Completeness 3/5 · Help complete it
Overview
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 1.
In the sources
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 1.
People and things also explored
Abu Dulaf Mosque, Samarra· Great Mosque of Adana· Ahi Çelebi Mosque, Istanbul· al-Aqmar Mosque, Cairo· al-Attarine Madrasa, Fez· Great Mosque of Samarra· al-Janad Mosque, Ta'izz· al-Mansur Mosque (Kasbah Mosque), Marrakesh
Sources
- John Freely, A History of Ottoman Architecture (2011)
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Sultan Ahmed Mosque (Blue Mosque)”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/building/blue-mosque/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-23.