Selimiye Mosque, Üsküdar

Selimiye Cami in Üsküdar stands directly behind the huge Selimiye Barracks on the Asian Marmara shore; Selim III built it in 1803–4 for the troops quartered in the barracks bearing his name — the last and one of the handsomest of the pure baroque mosques ¹.

The mosque sits in an exceptionally lovely garden with three of the city's finest plane trees; the western gallery, mihrab and mimber are of highly polished grey marble, and the sultan's loge takes kiosk form — a feature later imperial mosques adopted ². The külliye also included a mektep, çeşme, sebil and a muvakkithane for the mosque astronomer ².

• Source read: Freely, A History of Ottoman Architecture (2011), pp. 408–409 (Selimiye Cami, Üsküdar).
• Record created in this batch; distinct from building/selimiye-mosque (Edirne).