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Şehzade Mehmet Mosque and Complex

The Şehzade Mosque (Turkish: 'Şehzade Camii') is a 16th-century Ottoman imperial mosque located in the district of Fatih, on the third hill of Istanbul, Turkey. It was commissioned by Süleyman the Magnificent as a memorial to his son Şehzade Mehmed who died in 1543. It is sometimes referred to as the "Prince's Mosque" in English.

History
The construction of the Şehzade Complex (külliye) was ordered by the Ottoman Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent as a memorial to his favorite son Şehzade Mehmed (born 1520-1) who died in 1543 while returning to Istanbul after a victorious military campaign in Hungary.[2] Mehmed was the eldest son of Süleyman's only legal wife Hürrem - although not his eldest son - and before his untimely death he was primed to accept the sultanate following Süleyman's reign. Süleyman is said to have personally mourned the death of Mehmed for forty days at his temporary tomb in Istanbul, the site upon which the imperial architect Mimar Sinan would construct a lavish mausoleum to Mehmed as one part of a larger mosque complex dedicated to the princely heir. The complex was Sinan's first important imperial commission and ultimately one of his most ambitious architectural works, even though it was designed early in his long career.

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