Selimiye Mosque
Sinan's masterpiece: a dome on eight piers rivalling Hagia Sophia's in diameter
- Author
- Mimar Sinan
- Style
- Classical Ottoman Architecture (Sinan) — An answer to Hagia Sophia: a central dome on cascading half-domes and pencil-thin minarets
- Century
- 16th century
Made around the same time (±30 years)
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- 1565 The Hunters in the Snow — Pieter Bruegel the Elder · Northern Renaissance · Brussels
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- c. 1571–1585 Fatehpur Sikri · Mughal Art · Fatehpur Sikri
- 1573–1813 Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral · Latin American Baroque · Mexico City
- c. 1562 Pope Marcellus Mass — Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina · Italian Renaissance · Rome
- c. 1574 Ramcharitmanas — Tulsidas · Ayodhya
- 1557–1566 Stari Most — Mimar Hayruddin · Classical Ottoman Architecture (Sinan) · Mostar
What was happening in the world
- 1569 Union of Lublin
- 1582 Gregorian calendar
- 1555–1561 Saint Basil's Cathedral
- 1556 Shaanxi earthquake
- 1556 Akbar and the Second Battle of Panipat
- 1571 Battle of Lepanto