- Sultan Ahmed I
- the sultan who ordered her while still in his youth
- Iznik
- the tile town that dressed her inner walls with its tiles
- the blue tiles
- her blue tiles — the secret of her famous name
- six minarets
- her six minarets — a number no Ottoman mosque before her reached
- Hagia Sophia
- the great Byzantine building facing her across the great square
- the half-domes
- the small half-domes gathered around the great dome above
- 1616
- her completion year under Sultan Ahmed the First
- Sedefkar Mehmed Agha
- the engineer who built her, one of Sinan's senior pupils
- the seventeenth century
- the seventeenth century, in which she was built after Sinan's age
- the imperial mosque
- the title given to the great imperial mosques of the state
- the inner fountain
- her flowing fountain at the heart of her wide courtyard
- stone and marble
- her stone and marble, gathered from across the wide empire
