The Nuruosmaniye Complex
This historical place, called as the Nuruosmaniye Complex, doesn’t have the traces of the Ottoman Architecture due to its construction. Though, the effects of the Western Architecture can be seen clearly.
Construction of the Nuruosmaniye Complex started in the period of Sultan Mahmud I, one of the Ottoman Sultans. But it was completed in the period of Osman III.
There is no clear information about the architect of the Nuruosmaniye Complex but some of the historians point out Rum Architect Simeon Kalfa.
There are some sections in the complex such as sepulcher, library, mosque, fountain, public fountain, madrassa and imaret.
The Nuruosmaniye Mosque
The center of the mosque is surrounded with a canopy. This canopy is the biggest and the most imposing of the ones built during the Ottoman period, but it doesn’t include the Ottoman Architecture. Historians believe that its construction took approximately 7 years.
The Mosque contains the amazing Ottoman calligraphy and the scripts in it belong to Mehmet Rasim, Hattat Bursalı Ali Efendi(Calligrapher Ali Efendi from Bursa), Fahrettin Yahya and Seyyid Abdulhalim.
On the moldings which surround the walls of the mosque, Surah Al-Fath is engraved.
The mosque has two minarets and there are two balconies on each. Its yard has ‘U’ shape and is partly surrounded with small canopies. It has Western traces designed by the Ottoman artists.
Other Structures in the Nuruosmaniye Complex
In front of the sepulcher in the complex, there is a colonnade with 3 arches. The rectangular canopy and the patterns of the sepulcher are an example of Italian Baroque. As we mentioned before, because of the fact that Osman III had to finish the construction, there is a sarcophagus in the sepulcher, which belongs to his mother Şehsuvar Valide Sultan.
When the mosque is predicated as the center, you can see the imaret building in the west and the madrassa in the east. The imaret building consists of a yard, a dining hall and a kitchen. The madrassa has rooms surrounding it and colonnades. If you don’t visit the imaret building and the madrassa where Quran Courses are taught, you will miss so many things.
The library has also the canopies. Apart from the main canopy supported by 4 columns, the other 2 half canopies support the main one. There is a place like a basement below the library building, to which new rooms were added over time. Below the basement, there are shops that are visited even today.
The Nuruosmaniye Complex, which reached today without collapsing and being damaged, can be seen as the beginning of moving towards a different direction for the Ottoman Architecture.
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