The Çinili (i.e. Tiled) Mosque in Üsküdar

Visit to the Ottoman Empire

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Accession Nr.: D.4455.2.
Type: photograph
Artist/Maker:
Date of production:
1906
Place of production:
Acquisition: collection of Dezső Bozóky
Materials/Techniques: colour print, photo enlargement
Dimensions: height: 53 cm
width: 53 cm
exhibition material of Kolta Gallery, 8.5x17 cm, new enlargement from the original stereo glass diapositive variant: D.4455. Constantinople (İstanbul), Üsküdar district. Also called the Mahpeyker Kösem Sultan Mosque, after Ahmed I's wife, on whose orders it was built between 1638–1640. A crewman of the Taurus can be seen in the foreground.