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- The Gunpowder Empires
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- Anatolia
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Overview
The Kucuk Ayasofya Mosque was the Byzantine church of Saints Sergius and Bacchus, erected by Justinian shortly before Haghia Sophia and converted into a mosque after the Ottoman conquest; its octagon-inscribed-in-square plan was a prototype for Ottoman mosque plans 1.
In the sources
Freely sees the inscribed polygon covered by a dome — prototyped by Saints Sergius and Bacchus — as the ancestor of the Ottoman mosque plan 1.
People and things also explored
Abu Dulaf Mosque, Samarra· Great Mosque of Adana· Ahi Çelebi Mosque, Istanbul· al-Aqmar Mosque, Cairo· al-Attarine Madrasa, Fez· Great Mosque of Samarra· al-Janad Mosque, Ta'izz· al-Mansur Mosque (Kasbah Mosque), Marrakesh
Sources
- John Freely, A History of Ottoman Architecture (2011)
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Küçük Ayasofya Mosque (Saints Sergius and Bacchus)”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/building/kucuk-ayasofya/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-23.