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

Visit to the Ottoman Empire

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Accession Nr.: D.4455.
Type: photograph
Artist/Maker:
Date of production:
1906
Place of production:
Acquisition: collection of Dezső Bozóky
Materials/Techniques: hand-coloured stereo glass diapositive
Dimensions: height: 8.5 cm
width: 17 cm
Dezső Bozóky hand-coloured glass diapositive. From Dezső Bozóky's Photographic Collection: 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.