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Bayezid II Mosque (Beyazıt Camii) is a 16th-century Ottoman imperial mosque in Beyazıt Square, Istanbul, near the ruins of the Forum of Theodosius. Built between 1500–1505 for Sultan Bayezid II, it is the oldest surviving imperial mosque complex in the city.
The architect is uncertain, but likely Yakubşah ibn Islamşah. The complex (külliye) included a medrese, hamam, imaret, caravanserai, and Sultan Bayezid II's tomb. The mosque suffered earthquake and fire damage over centuries, with major restorations by Mimar Sinan (1573), and from 2012–2020.
Its architecture features a central dome (17m diameter), semi-domes, and colonnaded courtyard with polychrome marble. Inspired by Hagia Sophia, its interior has a central dome, semi-domes, and a sultan's loge with repurposed Byzantine columns.
Nearby, the Bayezid II Hamam is now the Museum of Turkish Hamam Culture, and the former soup kitchen became the State Library of Istanbul in 1882.
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.