Sacred Spaces: Turkish Mosques & Tombs

by Mary Cross, Peter Brown (Foreword by)

Overview

Stunning photographs celebrate the great mosques and tombs of the Ottoman period in Turkey.
Over twenty mosques and tombs built from the fifteenth to the early seventeenth centuries in Istanbul, Bursa and Edirne. They are the products of a bold, daring, and refined civilization at the height of its power.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781593720551
Publisher:	Quantuck Lane Press
Publication date:	11/16/2013
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	8.90(w) x 14.10(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

Mary Cross’s other books include Morocco: Sahara to the Sea. She lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

PETER BROWN is Emeritus Professor of History at Princeton University and author of Augustine of Hippo, The World of Late Antiquity, and Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350–550 AD.

Editorial Reviews

03/01/2014
Highlighting about 30 famous and lesser-known Turkish sites, noted photojournalist-essayist Cross captures the elegance, heart, and architectural spirit of the Ottoman Empire with her stunning photographs. Included are the Hagia Sophia and Sokullu Mehmed Pasha Mosque in Istanbul, the Green Mosque and Tomb and the Bayazid I Mosque in Bursa, Eski Camii in Edirne, and the Sokollu Mosque and complex in Luleburgaz, among others that excel in beauty and perspective with their surroundings. She displays a vast array of memorable domes, arches, minarets, doors, windows, and other features that boast richness of color, design, and decoration. The text is minimal and direct yet appropriately filled with historical facts and details about the individual buildings, the sultans and rulers for whom they were created, and those who created them, including the great architect Sinan. VERDICT The photography of interiors, exteriors, and cityscapes is the star of this beautiful travelog of sorts, which should be purchased by enthusiasts and libraries that feature collections of Islamic and Middle Eastern arts, architecture, and culture.—Stephen Allan Patrick, Jonesborough, TN

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