Modular System in Mimar Sinan's Mosques

Abstract

In the process from design through to construction of Mimar Sinan Structures, methods of designing and building it into a concrete structure are not exactly known. In this direction, in this study the relationship between the modular system and the mosques structural system with structural elements of structural system were examined. Modular system was studied in the Mihrimah Sultan Mosque (1548), Suleymaniye Mosque (1557) and Kilic Ali Pasa Mosque (1580-1581) that are square baldachin scheme Mimar Sinan period mosques and the presence of a modular system has been questioned by the results of analytical studies.