Mihrimah Sultan Mosque in Üsküdar

Description

Featured in the 1836 collaborative work of Thomas Allom and Robert Walsh, this steel engraving depicts Üsküdar Square, one of the most important transportation and trade hubs on the Anatolian side of Istanbul. While the elegant work of Mimar Sinan, the Mihrimah Sultan (Iskele) Mosque, and the III. Ahmed Public Fountain with its magnificent roof rise on the right; the intense caique traffic in the Bosphorus waters, and civilians unloading cargo and traveling at the pier are illustrated in the foreground. The artwork objectively documents how monumental religious/civil architecture in Ottoman urban design was organically and functionally integrated with the sea, transportation networks, and daily trade.