Turkey 🇹🇷, Istanbul, Suleymaniye Mosque

Suleymaniye is an architectural masterpiece, which is considered the most harmonious, marvelous and famous mosque in Istanbul. The mosque was built during the heyday of the power of the Ottoman Empire. This creation of the great Sinan is worthy of Suleiman the Magnificent.

The mosque was built in the middle of the XVI century, and the longest stage of construction was the creation of an unusual design of underground chambers and supports, which were designed to protect the bulk of almost fifty meters high from earthquakes and sliding down the hill into the bay.