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Damascus

Takiyya Sulaymaniyya

Ottoman complex & handicrafts market

Bernard Gagnon — CC BY-SA 3.0

An Ottoman complex designed by the architect Sinan for Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent: a domed mosque with two slender minarets and a market of Damascene handicrafts.

History

The takiyya was built in 1554–1559; the adjoining Selimiyya madrasa was added in 1566.

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