jan 1, 1568 - Mosque of Selim II, Sinan, 1568-1575 C.E.
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1. The mosque is located in Edirne because it was one of Selim II's favorite cities. The city is also historically and geographically significant since it was once the capital of the Ottoman Empire.
2. Edirne is the first major city that Europeans traveling to the Ottoman Empire will reach, so the size of this architecture was a way to impress visitors and show off its power.
3. Since this is a religious architecture, it was made to be symmetrical to display God's perfection, and the circular shape of the architecture could also point to God because the circle in Islam represents the unity of God or the Islamic idea of the circle of life.
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