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Materials from the marble quarries on Marmara Island and at Afyon-
Iscehisar and from Aegean Islands were used in the construction of the
masterpieces of architecture that reached their culmination in the
Ottoman period in the work of Sinan. In this period we also find the reuse
of material that had been employed in an earlier period. Works by
Sinan, such as the Suleymaniye Mosque completed in 1556, and the
Selimiye Mosque and Complex at Edirne, completed in 1575, display a
quite extraordinary skill in stone workmanship. One cannot
but wonder at the refined taste in the form and decoration of the hundreds
of marble constructions, such as fountains, shadirvans and
hamams, dating from the Ottoman period.
In the later Ottoman periods (1850-1890) the use of stone was largely
confined to buildings such as Dolmabahçe Saray and a few pavilions
and palaces such as Beylerbeyi. In these buildings, the use of Bakirkoy
stone, Marmara marble and Karamursel and Edincik-Sirincavus volcanic
tufas was supplemented by materials brought from various European
countries, Italy in particular.
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Selimiye Mosque at Edirne(1568-1575), one of the hundreds of monuments displaying the magnificent
stonework of the age of Sinan.
The Late Ottoman Dolmabahçe
Palace, in the construction of which
stones from both Turkey and abroad
were employed
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