Nobody could imagine that the son of a stonemason who learned the trade from his father in the year Cappadocia 1500 would become the greatest architect of the Ottoman Empire and one of the most influential … Continue reading
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Hersekzade Ahmed Pasha was the Grand Vizier of Suleiman the Magnificent and wanted to give a new building to Edirne, favorite city of the Imperial Family. He commissioned Mimar Sinan teacher, the greatest of Ottoman architects, building … Continue reading
The Maritsa River is the border between Greece and Turkey except in one place, the old station of Edirne in the picturesque neighborhood Karaağaç. It is the only territory of Turkey west of the Maritsa and a place that we should not let … Continue reading
When the best Ottoman architect, Mimar Sinan, He finished the monumental mosque of Suleiman the Magnificent, Christian architects said the largest dome could be built was, evidently, the Hagia Sophia. Not without some irony, claimed that the … Continue reading