Ottoman Empire. Turkey. Constantinople (today Istanbul). The Suleymaniye Mosque (1550-1557). It was commisioned by Suleyman the Magnificent and designed by the imperial architect Mimar Sinan. Engraving by Lemaitre and Arnaut. Historia de Turquia by Joseph Marie Jouannin (1783-1844) and Jules Van Gaver, 1840.

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