Edirne - Üç Şerefeli
Plan combining different types of stars
The Üç_Şerefeli mosque in Edirne dates from the 5th century.
The same construction of this muqarnas is used in otherTurkish mosques too:
- Üç Şerefeli mosque in Edirne (1447)
- Fatih mosque in Istanbul (1462)
- Hatuniye mosque in Tokat (1484)
- Beyazit mosque in Edirne (1487)
- Yavuz Selim mosque in Istanbul (1528)
- In the rectangular plan a half circle is drawn around the apex.
- Additionally on the left and on the right large circles are drawb circumscribing a 9-pointed star.
- Around this 9-pointed star a circle of 5-pointed stars is created.
- Beneath in the middle a half 10-pointed star appears and in the upper corners we can see quarters of 10-pointed star.
- The remaining place is filled in with additional irregular figures.
On the picture you can recognise the different elements of the plan:
- Below you recognise the supporting base shaped as a half 10-pointed star
- Left and right you see the big 9-pointed stars as domes with a big stalactite in the center
- The circles of 5-pointed stars around the big stars appear as circles of stalactites.
- The half 10-pointed star in the apex appears as a niche in the apex of the muqarnas.
