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The Laleli Mosque is an 18th-century Ottoman imperial mosque in Istanbul, Turkey. The mosque was commissioned by Sultan Mustafa III to serve as his imperial or sultanic mosque. Construction began in 1760 and was completed in 1764. The mosque was built in the Ottoman Baroque style of its time.
The mosque was the centerpiece of a larger complex (külliye) that included the Mustafa III's tomb, a nearby caravanserai which provided some revenues to the complex, a sebil, and a madrasa. The mosque and its complex were damaged by the 1766 earthquake and it was fully restored in 1783. The restoration preserved the original mosque's appearance. The mausoleum's façade was updated with new marble window frames in the early 19th century.
References:The Pilgrimage Church of Wies (Wieskirche) is an oval rococo church, designed in the late 1740s by Dominikus Zimmermann. It is located in the foothills of the Alps in the municipality of Steingaden.
The sanctuary of Wies is a pilgrimage church extraordinarily well-preserved in the beautiful setting of an Alpine valley, and is a perfect masterpiece of Rococo art and creative genius, as well as an exceptional testimony to a civilization that has disappeared.
The hamlet of Wies, in 1738, is said to have been the setting of a miracle in which tears were seen on a simple wooden figure of Christ mounted on a column that was no longer venerated by the Premonstratensian monks of the Abbey. A wooden chapel constructed in the fields housed the miraculous statue for some time. However, pilgrims from Germany, Austria, Bohemia, and even Italy became so numerous that the Abbot of the Premonstratensians of Steingaden decided to construct a splendid sanctuary.