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six great im-perial mosques from that of Sultan Bayezidin 1500 to Fatih in 1763 (Bayezid, Chah-zade, Sultan SuUeman, Sultan Ahmed,Yeni Valide, and Fatih) which are inspiredby Aja Sofia and present a unique oppor-tunity of studying the problem of enclosedspace dominated by a single great dome. Iknow… … MINARET IN ADRIANOPLE, TURKEY the Study of a parallel like this, needless tosay. With the imperial mosques, however,the study of the mosques of Stamboul is justbegun. There are dozens of others of archi-tectural interest, illustrating, as often byfailure as by success, problems of dome,vault, arch,…
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