Photographers Note
İznik Yeşil Cami (İznik): Osmanlı mimarisinin İznik'teki en önemli abidevi yapısı olan cami, ilçenin doğusunda Lefke Kapısı'nın yakınındadır. Çandarlı Hayrettin Paşa tarafından 1378-1398 de yaptırılmıştır.
Köşe sütunları ile mukarnas nişli, geometrik geçmeler, Rumi ve palmet kabartmalarla süslü sade mermer mihrap, en eski ve devrin en güzel Osmanlı örneğidir.
Selçuklu geleneğine uyan tuğla minare, camiye adını veren, yeşil firuze, sarı ve mor renkli çinilerle süslenmiştir. İznik Yeşil Cami, Selçuklu mimarisinden doğduğu sezilen Osmanlı üslubuna geçiş yapılarından biridir.
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Ancient Nicaea, now called Iznik, is a farming town surrounded by massive medieval walls set on the shore of a broad lake.
Two Christian ecumenical councils were held here, the 1st in 325, and the 7th in 787.
The ruined Hagia Sophia Church right at the city center was the scene of the 7th council.
Iznik's Green Mosque (Yesil Cami) is a fine Seljuk Turkish-influenced work. Across the street is an Ottoman imaret (soup kitchen) that now houses the city's good museum.
On the outskirts is a rare Byzantine underground tomb (Yeralti Mezar).
The best way to see Iznik is on the way from Istanbul to Bursa (map). Take a fast catamaran ferry in the morning from Istanbul's Yenikapi ferry terminal across the Sea of Marmara to Yalova, then a bus or minibus to Iznik (they wait right at the ferry dock in Yalova), and after seeing the walls, mosques and churches of Iznik, take a minibus to Bursa and stay overnight.
Photo Information
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Copyright: Fevzi YAPICI (fyapici)
(182) - Genre: Places
- Medium: Color
- Date Taken: 2005-07-03
- Categories: Architecture
- Camera: kodak Easyshare DX7590
- Exposure: f/2.8, 1/1000 seconds
- More Photo Info: view
- Photo Version: Original Version
- Date Submitted: 2006-07-27 9:30
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