SEMINAR: RELIGIOUS ARCHITECTURAL SPACE DEVELOPMENT IN TURKISH ISLAMIC ART (Lecturer PhD GÜNNUR AYDOĞDU)
This week's guest of the online seminars organized by KTMU Faculty of Theology, was PhD Gunnur Aydogdu. Aydogdu is the lecturer of Eskişehir Osmangazi University Faculty of Theology. In the seminar held on 03. 06. 2022 at the Faculty of Theology, Amphitheater No. 209, Aydoğdu made a detailed presentation on "Religious Architectural Space Development in Turkish-Islamic Art".
Dr. Aydoğdu stated, the monumental work of art or object can be classified as Islamic, according to the stage at which the region where theese monumentals are located is Islamized. She noted, that the adventure of Turkish-Islamic art began in the 10th century and in the Central Asian region. Aydogdu paid attention to the fact, that well known monumental works of Islamic art that had survived to the present days were in Syria, Iraq, Iran, North Africa and Andalusia, where Islam first began to spread and Palestine, which was taken through conquests. She said that it would be more meaningful for her to review the identity and character of the first mosque architecture of Islamic art and then take a look at the Turkish-Islamic mosque architecture.
PhD Aydogdu stated that the Masjid an-Nabawi structure, the formation and development of which was completed due to the need, is a precedent for the mosque architecture that followed, and that the "multi-supported (hypostille) plan scheme" was applied in the later mosques established in the conquered geographies -with some new trials-, He said that the early mosque examples of Damascus, Iran, Iraq, Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco and Andalusia are representatives of this style.
Aydoğdu pointed out that the worship structures of Turkish-Islamic art, which started with the Karakhanid civilization, were nourished by the local culture and traditional construction style of the geography. Diggârân stated that mosques such as Talhatan Baba are early examples of the central plan scheme that Mimar Sinan would mature in the 16th century. He pointed out that the examples of mosques in which new contributions were tried in Iran and Anatolia reached perfection in the 16th century. Dr. In his speech, Aydoğdu said that this adventure, which can be summarized as getting rid of the column forest in the multi-supported plan scheme and covering a large and undivided space with a large dome, became a classic with the Şehzade and Süleymaniye mosques in Istanbul and Selimiye mosques in Edirne as a result of various trials and stages in Anatolia. stated that it continues.
After the presentation, Dr. Aydoğdu answered the questions of the audience. At the end of the seminar, the dean of the Faculty of Theology Prof. Dr. Kemal Polat, for his participation and useful presentations, Dr. He thanked the lecturer Günnur Aydoğdu.
