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21-Dec-2006

Istanbul Rumeli Hisari dec 2006 3596 crop.jpg

This is in the little village north of the fortress.

Nearby is the Iskele Camii, the mosque at the pier, or the Haci Kemalettin mosque. After a fire the older building was repaired in 1746 by Sultan Mahmut I, who had a minaret added as well as a royal loge. That loge (on three columns) we see here. It is an example of the Ottoman Baroque, the capitals "are among the stateliest of the whole Ottoman Baroque: they resemble the modified Corintian seen at other royal structures of the 1740's, with oval medallions decorating their main faces, but they are distinguished by their abacuses, which are of dark green stone, and by their bead-studded corner volutes, which turn in on themselves rather than in the usual outward direction" (Source: Unver Rüstem: Ottoman Baroque).

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