The Architect · Yusuf · Istanbul
Şehzade Mosque
This is where Sinan works out his idea. Come here and Süleymaniye suddenly reads as a second draft.
Sinan's first great imperial mosque, built for a dead prince — the symmetrical four-half-dome scheme he'd refine for life.
— Yusuf, The Architect
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