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January 24, 2003
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Istanbul, Turkey
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1986
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James L. Stanfield
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Monument to a mighty ruler, Istanbul's many-domed Süleymaniye complex looks over the Golden Horn, Bosporus, and Sea of Marmara to Asia. Built in the 1550s by court architect Sinan, the mosque was surrounded by colleges, a hospital, a soup kitchen, baths, and the tombs of [Ottoman sultan] Süleyman and his wife, Roxelana. Istanbulthen known as Constantinoplebecame the seat of Ottoman power in 1453, when Süleyman's great-grandfather Mehmed II seized the Byzantine capital.
—From “The World of Süleyman the Magnificent,” November 1987, National Geographic magazine
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