At a glance
- Era
- The Gunpowder Empires
- Region
- Anatolia
- Review
- Draft Completeness 3/5 · Help complete it
Summary
Sitti Hatun Camii is a single-unit mosque erected in 1482 for Sitti Hatun, the Turcoman princess who married the future Mehmet II two years before he became sultan; she bore him no children, and when he moved his court to Istanbul in 1453 she stayed in Edirne, dying here in 1485 and buried in the graveyard behind her mosque 1.
Form
The mosque had a three-bayed portico, now gone, with a circular şadırvan in front; its hemispherical dome rests on Turkish triangles, raised externally on an octagonal drum with flat roofs at the corners 1.
For young visitors
A sultan's wife stayed behind in Edirne when the court left for Istanbul — she rests behind the mosque she built.
Curatorial notes
- Source read: Freely, A History of Ottoman Architecture (2011), p. 99 (Sitti Hatun Camii).
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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) , p.99
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Sitti Hatun Mosque, Edirne”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/building/sitti-hatun-mosque-edirne/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-23.