The list below contains some of the most important mosques in modern-day Turkey that were commissioned by the members of Ottoman imperial family. Some of these major mosques are also known as a selatin mosque, imperial mosque, or sultanic mosque, meaning a mosque commissioned in the name of the sultan and, in theory, commemorating a military triumph. Some mosques were commissioned by or dedicated to other members of the dynastic family, especially important women such as the mothers or wives of sultans. Usually, only a sultanic mosque or a mosque commissioned by a queen mother (valide) was granted the privilege of having more than one minaret.

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In the table below the first column shows the name, the second column shows the location, the third column shows the commissioner, the fourth column shows the architect and the fifth column shows the duration of construction. NameLocationCommissioner ArchitectYears Hüdavendigar MosqueBursaMurad I1365–1385Beyazıt I MosqueBursaBayezid I1391–1395Bursa Grand Mosque BursaBayezid I1396–1400Eski Mosque (Old Mosque)EdirneSüleyman Çelebi Mehmet I Haci Alaeddin Ömer İbrahim1402–1414Yeşil Mosque (Green Mosque) BursaMehmet IHacı İvaz1419–1421Muradiye ComplexBursaMurat II1426Darül Hadis MosqueEdirneMurat II1435Muradiye MosqueEdirneMurat II1435–1436Üç Şerefeli MosqueEdirneMurat II1438–1447Eyüp Sultan MosqueIstanbulMehmet II1458 Fatih MosqueIstanbulMehmed IIAtik Sinan1463–1471Bayezid ComplexEdirneBayezid IIHayrettin1484–1488Bayezid ComplexAmasyaŞehzade Ahmet1486Bayezid II MosqueIstanbulBayezid IIYakup1501–1506Gülbahar Hatun MosqueTrabzonSelim I?–1514Yavuz Selim MosqueIstanbulSelim I-Süleyman IAlaüddin (Acem Alisi)1520/21–1527/8Sultan Mosque (Manisa)ManisaHafsa Sultan1522Şah Sultan MosqueIstanbulŞah SultanMimar Sinan1533Haseki Sultan Mosque Istanbul Hürrem SultanMimar Sinan1538–1539, complex completed 1551, expanded 1612–13Şehzade MosqueIstanbulSüleyman IMimar Sinan1543–1548Mihrimah Sultan Mosque (Üsküdar) Istanbul (Üsküdar)Mihrimah SultanMimar Sinan1543/4–1548Süleymaniye MosqueIstanbulSüleyman IMimar Sinan1548–1559Sulaymaniyya Takiyya MosqueDamascusSüleyman IMimar Sinan1559Rüstem Pasha Mosque Istanbul Rüstem PashaMimar Sinan1561–1563Mihrimah Sultan Mosque (Edirnekapı)Istanbul (Edirnekapı)Mihrimah SultanMimar SinanSokollu Mehmet Pasha MosqueIstanbul (Kadırga)Ismihan SultanMimar SinanSelimiye MosqueEdirneSelim IIMimar Sinan1568–1574Selimiye Mosque KarapınarSelim IIMimar Sinan1563 Selimiye Mosque KonyaSelim IIMimar Sinan (?)1570 Atik Valide Camii (Old Valide Mosque)Istanbul (Üsküdar)Nurbanu SultanMimar Sinan1571–1583, expanded 1584–85/86Muradiye MosqueManisaMurat IIIMimar Sinan1583–1586/87, complex completed 1590Yeni Camii (New Mosque)Istanbul (Eminönü)Safiye Sultan Turhan Sultan Mimar Davut Ağa Mustafa Ağa Dalgıç Ahmed Çavuş1597–1665Sultan Ahmet Mosque (Blue Mosque)IstanbulAhmet ISedefkar Mehmet Agha1609–1616Çinili MosqueIstanbul (Üsküdar)Kösem SultanKoca Kasım Ağa1638–1640Yeni Valide Camii (New Valide Mosque)Istanbul (Üsküdar)Gülnuş SultanHazerfan Mehmet1708–1710Nuruosmaniye MosqueIstanbulMahmut I Osman IIIMustafa Ağa Simon Kalfa1749–1755Ayazma MosqueIstanbulMustafa III1757–1761Lâleli MosqueIstanbulMustafa IIIMehmet Tahir Ağa1760–1783Sultan Mustafa MosqueIstanbulMustafa III1763Zeynep Sultan MosqueIstanbulZeynep SultanMehmet Tahir Ağa1769Beylerbeyi Mosque IstanbulAbdülhamit IMehmet Tahir Ağa1777–1778Emirgan MosqueIstanbulAbdülhamit I1781Teşvikiye MosqueIstanbulSelim III Abdülmecit IKrikor Balyan1794–1854Selimiye MosqueIstanbulSelim III1805Nusretiye MosqueIstanbulMahmut IIKrikor Balyan1823–1826Hırka'i Şerif MosqueIstanbulAbdülmecit I1847–1851Dolmabahçe MosqueIstanbulAbdülmecit I - Bezmiâlem SultanGarabet Balyan1853–1855Ortaköy MosqueIstanbulAbdülmecit IGarabet Balyan Nigoğayos Balyan1854–1856Pertevniyal MosqueIstanbulPertevniyal SultanMontani or Sarkis Balyan1869–1871Aziziye Mosque (Konya)KonyaPertevniyal Sultan1872–1874Yıldız Hamidiye MosqueIstanbulAbdülhamit IISarkis Balyan1884–1886

Mosques on the hills of Istanbul Among those mosques in Istanbul some of them have been built on the traditional seven hills of the city (The numbers refer to the number of the hill.).

Sultan Ahmed Mosque Nuruosmaniye Mosque Süleymaniye Mosque Fatih Mosque Yavuz Selim Mosque Mihrimah Sultan Mosque

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