Selimiye Mosque

Selimiye Mosque - Credit: Wikimedia Commons

The Selimiye Mosque () is an Ottoman imperial mosque, located in the city of Edirne (formerly Adrianople), Turkey. It was commissioned by Sultan Selim II and was built by the imperial architect Mimar Sinan between 1568 and 1575. It was considered by Sinan to be his masterpiece and is one of the highest achievements of Islamic architecture as a whole and Ottoman architecture in particular. Read more on Wikipedia

type: religious building
date from: 1574

Source: en.wikipedia.org