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| Blue Mosque History |
After the Peace of Zsitvatorok (1606) and the unfavorable result of the wars with Persia, Sultan Ahmed I determined to construct a big mosque in Istanbul as recompense. This would be the first imperial mosque to be built in more than forty classes. Whereas his predecessors had paid for their mosques with their state of war loot, Sultan Ahmed I had to take away the investment trusts from the Treasury obligations, because he had not gained any famed triumphs. This elicited the choler of the ulama, the Moslem legal scholars.The mosque was to be built on the situation of the palace of the Byzantine emperors, confronting the Hagia Sophia (at that time the most venerated mosque in Istanbul) and the hippodrome, a land site of not bad symbolical import. Big parts of the southern side of the mosque rest on the foundation and bank vaults of the Great Palace. Several palaces had already worked up there, most notably the palace of Sokollu Mehmet Paa, so these first had to be bought at a considerable cost and pulled down.
Big parts of the Sphendone (curving tribune with U shaped social system of the hippodrome) were also taken to make elbow room for the new mosque. Structure of the mosque started in Aug 1609 when the sultan himself came to discover the first sod. It was his purpose that this would become the first mosque of his empire. He charged his royal designer Sedefhar Mehmet Aa, a student and fourth year helper of the far famed designer Mimar Sinan to be in charge of the construction. The organisation of the workplace was lined in meticulous particular in eight books, now determined in the library of the Topkap Palace. The opening ceremonials were held in 1617 (although the lettering on the gate of the mosque says 1616). The sultan could now beg in the royal box (hnkr mahfil). The edifice was not yet ceased in this last yr of his sovereignty, as the last explanations were signalled by his heir Mustafa I. Known as the Blue Mosque, Sultan Ahmed Mosque is one of the most impressive memorials in the world.
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