Selimiye Mosque, Üsküdar
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The Selimiye Mosque is a mosque in the district of Üsküdar in Istanbul, Turkey, near the Selimiye Barracks. It was commissioned by Ottoman Sultan Selim III and built between 1801 and 1805.
Selimiye Mosque, Üsküdar
View of the Selimiye Barracks from the Bosphorus
Front view of the mosque and its entrance portico
Side view of the mosque with the exterior lateral galleries
Selim III
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Selim III was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1789 to 1807. Regarded as an enlightened ruler, he was eventually deposed and imprisoned by the Janissaries, who placed his cousin Mustafa on the throne as Mustafa IV. A group of assassins subsequently killed Selim.
Portrait by Konstantin Kapıdağlı, 1803
Selim III receiving dignitaries at an audience at the Gate of Felicity, Topkapı Palace. Painting by Konstantin Kapıdağlı.
French campaign in Egypt and Syria against the Mamluk and Ottoman forces.
Ottoman troops desperately attempt to halt advancing Russians during the Siege of Ochakov (1788).