Ortaköy Mosque

Büyük Mecidiye Camii, better known as the Ortaköy Mosque, is one of the most recognizable Ottoman mosques on the Bosphorus, and it belongs to the Sunni tradition. It was commissioned in the reign of Sultan Abdülmecid I and is usually dated to the 1850s, when the shoreline here was becoming a showcase for late Ottoman architecture. The building is widely associated with the Balyan family of architects, whose work shaped many imperial projects in Istanbul. Its setting beside the water gives the mosque a very different feeling from the older inland imperial mosques, because this one is tied so closely to the promenade, the ferry traffic, and the changing light on the strait. The local name, Ortaköy Camii, is the one people still use most often, and it has become one of the best-known symbols of the waterfront just a short distance from the old waterfront palace sites nearby.

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