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Al-Takiyyah al-Sulaymaniyyah is an Ottoman complex built beside the Barada river in central Damascus for Sultan Sulayman the Magnificent. Designed by the…
Al-Takiyyah al-Sulaymaniyyah is an Ottoman complex built beside the Barada river in central Damascus for Sultan Sulayman the Magnificent. Designed by the great architect Mimar Sinan, it was completed around 1560 on the site of an old Mamluk palace and served the pilgrims of the Damascus Hajj caravan, with a mosque, lodgings for travellers and a public kitchen. Its mosque, with its two slender pencil minarets and broad dome, is one of the finest examples of classical Ottoman architecture outside Turkey. The adjoining madrasa now houses a market of traditional crafts, and the complex's cemetery holds the grave of the last Ottoman sultan.