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Whereas imperial mosque-complexes had been situated on imposing hilltop sites and provided infrastructure for the growing population in resettled quarters of the city, Ahmed's mosque (also known as the Blue Mosque) was placed in the heart of the city on a site containing the ruins of the Byzantine Great Palace and facing the Hippodrome to the west. It confronted at a distance of some 200 m to the north the most venerated and important mosque in the capital, the converted church of Hagia Sophia. With its six minarets and its semi-domes cascading on four axes, the mosque represents the ultimate evolution of the imperial Ottoman mosque after two centuries of linear development. Although critics have long faulted the mosque for infelicities in architectural transitions, decoration and structural details, the siting, size, number of minarets, light-flooded interior and spacious forecourt make it the most popular and well-known of Ottoman mosques. Problems during its construction, many of them financial, evidently included an inability to commission adequate ceramic decoration for the interior, and Iznik tiles from other monuments not protected by endowment were recycled. Most of the interior tiling made for the building, apart from that of the rear gallery walls, is of markedly inferior quality, although the overwhelming impression of color has given rise to its nickname, the Blue Mosque. Grove Dictionary of Art. 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You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use."},{"label":"Public Note","value":"Volume 15: Palestine/Constantinople Page 39; Number assigned by photographer or print studio"},{"label":"Metadata Status","value":["Metadata reviewed by Metadata Services staff."]},{"label":"Physical Location of Original","value":"Kranzberg Art&Arch Library Spec Oversize NA202 St8 4o v.1-19"},{"label":"Copyright Status","value":["No Known Copyright"]},{"label":"Creator","value":["Sébah & Joaillier (Photography studio) [LCNAF]","Sébah, Pascal, 1823-1886 [LCNAF]","Joaillier, Polycarpe, 1848-1904 [LCNAF]"]},{"label":"Identifier","value":"rsv15p39"},{"label":"Visibility_Controlled","value":["Full access (Allow downloads)"]},{"label":"Link to External Resource","value":"https://library.washu.edu/spec/19th-century-architectural-photography-collection/"}],"description":"Mosque of Sultan Ahmed I","sequences":[{"@type":"sc:Sequence","canvases":[{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/washu/iiif/58134939-5509-4cb6-ac68-ed4b31f71fde/canvas/_1","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"Mosque of Sultan Ahmed I","height":5081,"width":6295,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/washu/iiif/58134939-5509-4cb6-ac68-ed4b31f71fde/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":null,"service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/washu/iiif/58134939-5509-4cb6-ac68-ed4b31f71fde","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":2048,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4]}]},"height":5081,"width":6295},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/washu/iiif/58134939-5509-4cb6-ac68-ed4b31f71fde/canvas/_1","metadata":[]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/washu/iiif/58134939-5509-4cb6-ac68-ed4b31f71fde/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}}]}],"thumbnail":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/washu/iiif/58134939-5509-4cb6-ac68-ed4b31f71fde/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","logo":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/washu/iiif/logo"}