Sinan was born in 1489 in Ağırnas. Before rising to the position of chief architect in the Ottoman Empire, a title he held for 50 years, he travelled a far…
The Hagia Sophia, located in Turkey on the Europe-Asia border, has a long history. The first attempt, built in 360 A.D. by Byzantine Emperor Constantius 2, was destroyed and then…
What came along with the 600-year rule of the Ottoman empire is its architecture. Ottoman architecture has been heavily influenced by two major sources. The first is the Seljuk architecture…