AN ASSESSMENT ON THE EFFECTS OF MAKSUR DOME TRADITION TO UNDERSTANDING THE PUBLIC SPACE OF TURKISH MOSQUE ARCHITECTURE AT THE ISLAMIC MOSQUE ARCHITECTURE
ERKEN DÖNEM İSLAM CAMİ MİMARİSİNDE MAKSURE KUBBESİ GELENEĞİNİN TÜRK CAMİ MİMARİSİNDEKİ TOPLU MEKÂN ANLAYIŞINA ETKİLERİ ÜZERİNE BİR DEĞERLENDİRME

Author : Yusuf ÇETİN
Number of pages : 115-126

Abstract

Maksur section that has been designed to ensure the safety of the caliph, was added to Mescidu’n Nebi that is the first Islamic Mosque during Hz Osman period at the Islamic Mosque Architecture. Over time, maksur covering with the dome, is located in the front of the altar and maksur has been one of the key elements of the Islamic mosque architecture. This maksur dome tradition that is involved in the bivouac type of mosque which is brought to Iran and Central Asia by Muslim Arabs, has become a monumental form in front of the altar by mergigng with a tradition od dome that is related with pre-Islamic beliefs and management. Dome seen as a symbol of monarch sovereignty, in front of the altar, was introduced in the mosques of first Muslim Turkish States Karahanlı and Gazneli and it has been the starting point of spatial association that represents the mosque architecture. Büyük Selçuklular that created a monumental mosque architecture with collecting and evaluating developments of mosques in the Karahanlı and Gazneli, spread this architectural approach to the Islamic World. Seljuks who conquered Anatolia with the victory of Malazgirt in 1071, dealth with dome in front of the altar wih excitement of creaing a new mosque architecture, they tend to public space that dome controls thought. At the established principalities after Anatolian Seljuk, this search had been advancing step by step. In the Ottoman era mosque architecture in XIV century, majör improvements in terms of monumental space design has been began to appear, especially dome in front of the altar had been the basic element of spatial design. In the XVI. Century, public space concept that has the idea of gathering a crowded community under one dome in the Turkish mosque architecture reached its climax with Mimar Sinan built Edirne Selimiye Mosque by using the existing architectural accumulation that consists of ongoing search and experimentation in the Ottoman mosque architecture.

Keywords

Maksur, the Dome in Front of the Altar, Public Space Concept, Mosque Architecture, Space Design

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