A mosque is a mosque is a mosque, right? Wrong! You could perhaps be forgiven for thinking in this way while travelling around…
All things Ottoman have rarely seemed more fashionable in Turkey. Whether it’s Ottoman motifs in fabrics, Ottoman houses finding new life as boutique…
“Süleyman’s Place” Of all Sinan’s great designs for Constantinople the one that is usually thought of as his masterpiece is the Süleymaniye complex…
If ever there was a man who stamped his mark on İstanbul it has to have been Koca Mimar Sinan (c.1490-1588), the great…
Born the son of a goldsmith at the court of Sultan Ahmed I in 1611, Evliya Çelebi became an apprentice to the sultan’s…