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- Era
- The Gunpowder Empires
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- Anatolia
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Overview
The Shehzade Mosque is a great complex on Istanbul's Third Hill, ordered by Suleyman the Magnificent in memory of his son Shehzade Mehmet, who died of smallpox in 1543; Sinan designed and built it 1544-1548, calling it his 'apprentice work' 1.
In the sources
An outer precinct wall encloses the mosque with its medrese, imaret, primary school, tabhane and Prince Mehmet's turbe, around which later tombs rose 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. “Şehzade Mosque”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/building/sehzade-mosque/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-23.