Architecture sights in Edirne
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Selimiye Mosque
It's impossible to miss the Selimiye Mosque, Edirne's grandest and most central mosque, designed by the great Ottoman architect Mimar Sinan. Constructed for Sultan Selim II (r 1566-74) and finished just after his death, it is smaller but more elegant than Sinan's tremendous Süleymaniye Camii (1557) in İstanbul, and it's said that Sinan himself considered it his finest work.
To best appreciate the mosque you should enter from the west, as the architect intended, rather than through the terraced park and the arasta (row of shops) to the south. The broad, lofty dome - marginally wider than that of İstanbul's Aya Sofya - is supported unobtrusively by eight pillars, arches a…
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