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Description
Property Name: Uc Serefeli Mosque
Inventory No: 90-284-4
Date of infill of the inventory form: 2008-01-15
Country (State party): Turkey
Province: Edirne
Town:
Geographic coordinates: 41° 40′ 41.03″ N
26° 33′ 13.4″ E
Historic Period: Early Ottoman (1299-1453)
Year of Construction: 1438-47
Style: Early Ottoman
Original Use: Mosque
Current Use: Mosque
Architect: Unknown
Significance
The mosque is named after its unusual minaret with three balconies (serefe). Its typology contains triangular pendentives in the Bursa manner and the pair of domes on each side resembling the old zawiyas.
Selection Criteria
vi. to be directly or tangibly associated with events or living traditions, with ideas, or with beliefs, with artistic and literary works of outstanding universal significance
State of Preservation
After the 1752 earthquake the mosque had been repared in 1763. It had been totally restored in 1930 and the frescoes were restored in 1999.
References
Goodwin, Godfrey. A History of Ottoman Architecture , The John Hopkins Press, Baltimore, 1971.
ed. Michell, George. Architecture of the Islamic World; Its History and Social Meaning. Thanes & Hudson, London, 1978.
Archnet website: http://www.archnet.org