{"id":1582,"date":"2016-08-26T21:34:41","date_gmt":"2016-08-27T02:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/?page_id=1582"},"modified":"2016-09-12T12:48:44","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T17:48:44","slug":"ulu-camii","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/ulu-camii\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ulu Camii (Great Mosque) of Divrigi, Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-modular-content-collection><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1577\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/anastylosis-audio-bank\/ulucamii-for-web\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/files\/2016\/08\/UluCamii-for-web.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,601\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;P 45&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1237167473&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"UluCamii for web\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/files\/2016\/08\/UluCamii-for-web.jpg\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1577\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/files\/2016\/08\/UluCamii-for-web-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"UluCamii for web\" width=\"536\" height=\"402\" \/><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/elevator.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/asset\/getEmbed\/57c5bb49e758aee2643685b9\/null\/true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"50\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 12<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th-<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">century is relatively early in a timeline of mosque architecture. \u00a0The Great Mosque of Divrigi, Turkey was built by the Seljuks, a Turko-Persian group. The sultan who commissioned the mosque in \u201cthe middle of mountainous nowhere\u201d hired masons from what is now Armenian Georgia, and they used small Christian Churches of the time as a model for the interior. The plain masonry walls with elaborately carved portals came from the local example of the <em>caravan serais<\/em> \u2013 secular, rather than religious buildings and it is doubtful that the original building even had a minaret (which is why I have drawn the existing minaret lightly on the backing board). \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This drawing was a conceptual puzzle to me. Up to this point all the drawings were elevations of the facades. \u00a0But once I returned to the studio with my sketches, photos, and research from Divrigi I found I couldn\u2019t make a very interesting drawing of this site just showing \u201cthe front side.\u201d Once I figured out the important part of a mosque is the floor, I decided to \u201cunfold\u201d the drawing. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The central two panels represent the floor,\u00a0with the red rugs put down first. Then I added the structural elements including the carved vaults. The gold leaf represents light \u2013 the oculus. Look for Koranic verses written into the vaulting and around the <em>mihrab<\/em> (niche that orients the mosque towards Mecca.) The blue vining pattern defining the structure of \u00a0the building was inspired by \u00a0a border pattern from a Koran.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Of all the drawings this is the most obviously like an x-ray. Look carefully and you will see the interior arches and decoration. The next step was to superimpose the exterior stonework. To recreate the warm tone of the stone, I pasted sewing patterns over the walls of the building \u2013 notice their arrows and printed lines. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/anastylosis-audio-bank\/\">\u2190BACK<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 12th-century is relatively early in a timeline of mosque architecture. \u00a0The Great Mosque of Divrigi, Turkey was built by the Seljuks, a Turko-Persian group. 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