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Dick Osseman | all galleries >> Edirne pictures - Turkey >> Edirne mosques >> Eski Camii or Old Mosque in Edirne >> Exterior of Old Mosque > Edirne dec 2006 0118.jpg
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09-DEC-2006

Edirne dec 2006 0118.jpg

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One of several shots taken as evening fell.

The prayer hall of this Eski Cami (without the porch) is about 49 x 49 m large (mesured inside; outside dimensions: 49½ m square), and has three entries: a main entrance in the north, and two other east and west. The nine domes have a diameter of 13½ m each.
The mosque was damaged by a fire in 1748, and by an earthquake four years later. Sultan Mahmut I had it restored in 1754; on that occasion the present northern porch was built.

Correspondent: J.M.Criel, Antwerpen.
Source: ‘Türkye Tarihi Yerler Kılavuzu’ – M.Orhan Bayrak, Inkılâp Kitabevi, Istanbul, 1994.

Nikon D2x
1/10s f/4.5 at 18.0mm full exif

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Edirne Eski Camii