Geometry in Veli Pasha Mosque, Crete

Veli Pasha Mosque, located outside the walls of Réthymnon, Crete, Greece, was built around 1651 as the focal point of a Kadiri dervish convent, almost immediately after the capture of the town in 1646 by the Ottomans. It was practically and symbolically inscribed in a network of mosques and pious fo...

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Published in:Nexus network journal 2023-06, Vol.25 (2), p.269-291
Main Author: Katsarakis, Antonis
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Architecture
Convents
History
History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
Mathematics
Mathematics and Statistics
Mosques
Mosques & temples
Popular Science
Society
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Summary:Veli Pasha Mosque, located outside the walls of Réthymnon, Crete, Greece, was built around 1651 as the focal point of a Kadiri dervish convent, almost immediately after the capture of the town in 1646 by the Ottomans. It was practically and symbolically inscribed in a network of mosques and pious foundations that functioned as prime signifiers of the urban Ottomanization of the town. The survey and analysis of the building, which belongs to the multi-cell type, detected the use of a 22 × 24 grid, with a 1 × 1 ell module. It is highly possible that the 734 mm value of the Ottoman ell was employed in the design of the mosque, which despite its modest scale retains a remarkable structural, typological, proportional and decorative clarity.
ISSN:1590-5896
1522-4600
DOI:10.1007/s00004-022-00616-w