Ottoman Architecture appreciation thread

[itilvolga]

Beylerbeyi Palace


Çırağan Palace


Küçüksu Pavilion

[Bosniensis]

Well they added their cultural input to the architecture too. There are some symbols comes from Turkic myths, legends in traditional architecture of Ottomans. That's just an example and goes like that, Of course they were nomadic and couldn't give a great influence to the architecture.

Persian architecture comes from Great Seljuks. It is not about Anatolia but from today's Iran borders.


I agree with the last statement

For us Balkan Muslims, Byzantine Architecture meant a lot, cause it made us believe and observe Ottoman Empire as practical spiritual successor to Roman Empire.
Muslim Greeks and Serbs did a lot to make us feel at home, Turks liked it as well and we lived nicely 500 years, Islam connected us and we were fine.

Nowdays I see mosques built with modernist style (American, Germanic) I despise those mosques.... they say it's expensive to build Ottoman-style Mosque, then they shouldn't build it!.

Istanbul never experienced World War so it has all traditional buildings in place, it's beautiful really.

[Tigranes]

Beylerbeyi Palace


Çırağan Palace


Küçüksu Pavilion

All 3 of them designed and constructed by Armenian Balyan family.

Like the other aesthetic buildings in Istanbul:

Buildings and structures designed and constructed by Balyan family members:

Royal residences

• Dolmabahçe Palace (1848–56)
• Beylerbeyi Palace (burnt by Janissaries, rebuilt) (1861–1865)
• Çırağan Palace (1863–1871)
• Topkapı Palace
• Sarayburnu Palace (burnt 1875)
• Beşiktaş Palace
• Valide Sultan Palace, Arnavutköy
• Defterdar Sultan Palace
• Adile Sultana Palace, Kandilli (1876)
• Eyup Twin Palaces
• Salıpazarı Palace
• Yıldız Palace
• Fındıklı Cemile and Münire Sultan Palaces (1856–59)
• İzmit Hünkar Palace
• Baltalimanı Coastal Palace
• Aynalıkavak Palace
• Esma Sultana Mansion (1875)
• Adile Sultan Pavilion, Validebağ (1853)
• Ihlamur Pavilion (1849)
• Küçüksu (Göksu) Pavilion (1857)
• Malta Kiosk
• Sultan Mahmud I Kiosk
• Yeşilköy Hünkar Kiosk
• Old kiosk on Galatasaray islet

Religious buildings

• Tophane Nusretiye Mosque (1823–26)
• Ortaköy Mosque (1852–1854)
• Dolmabahçe Mosque (Bezm-i Alem Valide Sultan Mosque; 1852–54)
• Aksaray Valide Mosque (1871)
• Üsküdar Surp Haç Armenian Church
• Kayseri Surp Krikor Lusavoriç Armenian Church
• Beşiktaş Surp Nişan Armenian Church (1834)
• Ortaköy Surp Astvadzadzin Armenian Church (1824)
• Kuruçeşme Surp Nişan Armenian Church
• Bandırma Armenian Church
• Beyoğlu Surp Yerrortutyun Church (1838)
• Kumkapı Surp Astvadzadzin Patriarchiate Church
• Mausoleum of Sultan Mahmud II (1840)
• Mausoleum of Sultan Abdülmecit I
• Mausoleum of Sultan Abdülaziz

Public buildings

• Istanbul Mint
• Selimiye Barracks (1800)
• Davutpaşa Barracks (1826–1827)
• Beyoğlu Barracks
• Maçka Arsenal
• Ministry of War
• Academy of War
• Palace School of Medicine
• Academy of Fine Arts
• Beşiktaş Makruhyan Armenian Primary School (1866)
• Beyazit Tower (1828)
• Dolmabahçe Clock Tower (1895)
• Nusretiye Clock Tower (1848)
• Topuzlu Dam
• Valide Dam
• Beşiktaş-Akaretler 138 Terraced Houses (1874)
• Surp Prgiç Armenian National Hospital (1827–1834)

Production facilities

• Zeytinburnu iron works
• İzmit textile factory
• Hereke textile factory (1843)
• Bakırköy textile factory
• Beykoz tannery
• Zeytinburnu gunpowder factory (1874)

But the Turks did not miss the opportunity show how grateful they were for Armenians' contributions to the Ottoman Empire by destroying Armenian Churches and Monasteries.

[Kaspias]

For us Balkan Muslims, Byzantine Architecture meant a lot, cause it made us believe and observe Ottoman Empire as practical spiritual successor to Roman Empire.
Muslim Greeks and Serbs did a lot to make us feel at home, Turks liked it as well and we lived nicely 500 years, Islam connected us and we were fine.

Nowdays I see mosques built with modernist style (American, Germanic) I despise those mosques.... they say it's expensive to build Ottoman-style Mosque, then they shouldn't build it!.

Istanbul never experienced World War so it has all traditional buildings in place, it's beautiful really.

Try Konya and Bursa if you want to see "real" Ottoman architecture

[itilvolga]

All 3 of them designed and constructed by Armenian Balyan family.

Like the other aesthetic buildings in Istanbul:

Buildings and structures designed and constructed by Balyan family members:

Royal residences

• Dolmabahçe Palace (1848–56)
• Beylerbeyi Palace (burnt by Janissaries, rebuilt) (1861–1865)
• Çırağan Palace (1863–1871)
• Topkapı Palace
• Sarayburnu Palace (burnt 1875)
• Beşiktaş Palace
• Valide Sultan Palace, Arnavutköy
• Defterdar Sultan Palace
• Adile Sultana Palace, Kandilli (1876)
• Eyup Twin Palaces
• Salıpazarı Palace
• Yıldız Palace
• Fındıklı Cemile and Münire Sultan Palaces (1856–59)
• İzmit Hünkar Palace
• Baltalimanı Coastal Palace
• Aynalıkavak Palace
• Esma Sultana Mansion (1875)
• Adile Sultan Pavilion, Validebağ (1853)
• Ihlamur Pavilion (1849)
• Küçüksu (Göksu) Pavilion (1857)
• Malta Kiosk
• Sultan Mahmud I Kiosk
• Yeşilköy Hünkar Kiosk
• Old kiosk on Galatasaray islet

Religious buildings

• Tophane Nusretiye Mosque (1823–26)
• Ortaköy Mosque (1852–1854)
• Dolmabahçe Mosque (Bezm-i Alem Valide Sultan Mosque; 1852–54)
• Aksaray Valide Mosque (1871)
• Üsküdar Surp Haç Armenian Church
• Kayseri Surp Krikor Lusavoriç Armenian Church
• Beşiktaş Surp Nişan Armenian Church (1834)
• Ortaköy Surp Astvadzadzin Armenian Church (1824)
• Kuruçeşme Surp Nişan Armenian Church
• Bandırma Armenian Church
• Beyoğlu Surp Yerrortutyun Church (1838)
• Kumkapı Surp Astvadzadzin Patriarchiate Church
• Mausoleum of Sultan Mahmud II (1840)
• Mausoleum of Sultan Abdülmecit I
• Mausoleum of Sultan Abdülaziz

Public buildings

• Istanbul Mint
• Selimiye Barracks (1800)
• Davutpaşa Barracks (1826–1827)
• Beyoğlu Barracks
• Maçka Arsenal
• Ministry of War
• Academy of War
• Palace School of Medicine
• Academy of Fine Arts
• Beşiktaş Makruhyan Armenian Primary School (1866)
• Beyazit Tower (1828)
• Dolmabahçe Clock Tower (1895)
• Nusretiye Clock Tower (1848)
• Topuzlu Dam
• Valide Dam
• Beşiktaş-Akaretler 138 Terraced Houses (1874)
• Surp Prgiç Armenian National Hospital (1827–1834)

Production facilities

• Zeytinburnu iron works
• İzmit textile factory
• Hereke textile factory (1843)
• Bakırköy textile factory
• Beykoz tannery
• Zeytinburnu gunpowder factory (1874)

But the Turks did not miss the opportunity show how grateful they were for Armenians' contributions to the Ottoman Empire by destroying Armenian Churches and Monasteries.

Ee, wat? OP has asked for Ottoman Architecture. These are Ottoman ones and you Armenians were Ottomans as well. What’s your point here?

[Kaspias]

Ee, wat? OP has asked for Ottoman Architecture. These are Ottoman ones and you Armenians were Ottomans as well. What’s your point here?

Trolling you

[Tigranes]

Ee, wat? OP has asked for Ottoman Architecture. These are Ottoman ones and you Armenians were Ottomans as well. What’s your point here?

I'm just stating the facts...

[Kaspias]

I'm just stating the facts...

which is not about the topic

[itilvolga]

Trolling you

He just makes an exhibition of himself lol

[Bosniensis]

All 3 of them designed and constructed by Armenian Balyan family.
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But the Turks did not miss the opportunity show how grateful they were for Armenians' contributions to the Ottoman Empire by destroying Armenian Churches and Monasteries.

Imperial Administration adopted Islam, you need to get with Times or move to Greece. Most Armenians did a right move and became Modern Turks. What do you want? To build Armenia inside Turkey? No way Hosea.

Turkey is modern successor to Ottoman and Byzantine Empire, there is no place for Orthodox religion there. True Armenians built mosques not Churches.