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Notes for visitors
Visitors should remove their shoes before stepping onto the mosque’s carpets. Avoid visiting Suleymaniye Mosque at prayer times (five times a day), especially noon praying on Fridays. Women should wear a head covering when entering to the Suleymaniye Mosque. Photography is allowed, however do not take pictures of people who are in to pray. Stay silent during your visit, don’t run and stand in front of anyone praying.
Masterpiece Of The History Of Architecture
The Suleymaniye Mosque is an Ottoman imperial mosque located on the Third Hill of Istanbul, Turkey. The mosque was commissioned by Suleiman the Magnificent and designed by the imperial architect Mimar Sinan. An inscription specifies the foundation date as 1550 and the inauguration date as 1557. Behind the qibla wall of the mosque is an enclosure containing the separate octagonal mausoleums of Suleiman the Magnificent and that of his wife Hurrem Sultan (Roxelana). For 462 years, the Suleymaniye Mosque was the largest mosque in the city, until it was surpassed by the Camlica Mosque in 2019. The Suleymaniye Mosque is one of the best-known sights of Istanbul, and from its location on the Third Hill, it commands a spectacular view of the city around the Golden Horn.
