Süleymaniye Mosque, Edirne

Süleymaniye Mosque or Süleyman Pasha Mosque, a mosque built in 1548 in the city center of Edirne by Süleyman Pasha, one of the viziers during the time of Kanuni Sultan Suleiman.

The mosque, damaged in the earthquake of 1751, was rebuilt by the foundation three years later. Because the minaret was curved above its balcony, it was demolished and rebuilt in 1862. The mosque, which was ruined due to the Russian occupation of 1877 and the flooding of rivers, was repaired with a total aid of one hundred thousand kuruş by a commission chaired by the provincial clerk Mehmet Efendi with the assistance of Abdulhamid II, and reopened for worship in 1899. After being damaged again by floods and closed for worship, restoration work began in 2011. During the restoration work, an unexploded mortar shell and a cannonball were found half a meter below the soil surface. After eight years of restoration work, Süleyman Pasha Mosque was reopened for worship in 2019.

The mosque, built on a flat terrain, has a square plan. Its minaret is located at the north corner of the mosque. The last congregation area seated on four columns is three-domed. In the hexadecagonal drum of the mosque there are eight round-arched windows. To the right of the mihrab, which has a scallop-shell shape on top, there is a plain marble minbar.