Selimiye & Edirne

“The Şehzade was my apprenticeship, the Süleymaniye my journeyman’s work, the Selimiye my mastery.” These words are attributed to Mimar Sinan. So what does an architect think about, well past the age of eighty, as he raises the work he calls his “mastery”? Perhaps a single dream he chased all his life: a dome that could measure up to the dome of Hagia Sophia…