Arap Camii

Date: 13th century
Image View Description: Exterior: Northwest Corner Detail
Work Type: architecture
Culture: Byzantine
Culture: Ottoman
Location: Istanbul (Turkey)
Notes: Originally a 13th century church dedicated to San Domenico. Consecrated to mosque between 1475-1478 by Sultan Mehmed II. Sultan Bayezid later assigned the mosque to Arab Muslims of Andalusia who fled the Spanish Inquisition.
Image Source: Photography by Media Center for Art History, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University
Photographer: Gabriel Rodriguez
Record ID: 1314_istanbul2013_arapcamii_img_086


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