Sedefkar Mehmed Agha

صدف كار محمد آغا

Draft card for Sedefkar Mehmed Agha, the Ottoman imperial architect and pupil of Sinan who built the Sultan Ahmed Mosque in early seventeenth-century Istanbul, d. 1617; the survey entry is not yet checked on the page.

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Roles
Scholar
Era
The Gunpowder Empires
Region
Anatolia
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Architecture

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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

  • Goodwin, A History of Ottoman Architecture (1971)
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Abu Dulaf Mosque, Samarra

Draft card for the Abu Dulaf Mosque of Samarra, built by the Abbasid al-Mu'tamid about 860 with a smaller spiral minaret in the style of al-Mutawakkil's; the encyclopedia entry is not yet checked on the page.