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Abdulkadir Geylani Mosque, Sincan, Ankara, photographed in 2016 by Norman Behrendt

Erdogan is ordering the construction of mosques much as Suleiman the Magnificent once gave orders to Mimar Sinan. But as Bozdogan points out, there were many styles of mosques throughout the Ottoman Empire; in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries...Erdogan, however, sees such 18th- and 19th-century mosques as a contamination, not purely Turkish like the mosques of the 16th century. NYT Magazine

Suzy H. Hansen visits Turkey, where Erdogans AK Party and TOKI (the national housing commission) have overseen aboom in construction and urban re/development. Including of houses of worship designed to reference a "golden age" ofTurkish identity, while also furthering the Islamicizationof the country and providing an ongoing economic engine.

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Erdogan's neo-Ottoman mosques - Archinect