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a large building with many domes on top

Following the Peace of Zsitvatorok (1606) and the unfavourable result of the wars with Persia, Sultan Ahmed I decided to build a huge mosque in Istanbul. It would be the first great imperial mosque to be built in more than forty years.His predecessors had paid for their mosques with their war booty, Sultan Ahmed I had to withdraw the funds from the treasury, because he had not won any notable victories during his time. This provoked the anger of the Ottoman ulema, the Muslim legal scholars…

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the sun shines through stained glass windows in an ornate building

“It is a defining element of Islamic architecture, almost like a complex, mathematical pattern made three-dimensional, one which gives the impression that the building is dissolving before our eyes. The Nasir ol-Molk is filled with the infinite beauty of muqarnas.”

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a large building with a white pergolated roof over it's entrance area

Completed in 2011 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Images by Bill Lyons. MIAMI – October 22, 2013 – Designed by global award-winning architecture and design firm Perkins+Will, in collaboration with Dar Al-Handasah (Shair...

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