Building name: The Şakirin Mosque

Architect: Hursev Tayla

Interior Designer: Zeynep Fadıllıoğlu

Location: Istanbul, Turkey

The mosque is a combination between contemporary and modern styles with traditional Ottoman design. The difference can be seen only from inside. There are futuristic motifs which gives contemporary view of the interior. The shape of the building in a combination with beautiful Islamic patterns give the traditional view of the building.

Fadıllıoğlu  pay special attention to women, so she designed women’s upper floor to match the men’s area in both size and beauty.

”The architecture of the universe”

Author: Charles Gilchrist

Charles Gilchrist believe that the universe  is one  gygantic system which contains three languages: Sacred sound (vibration), Sacred sequence (time, numbers) and Sacred geometry (form). 

The first enclosed archetype of Sacred Geometry is the “Circle”. There are two aspects of each form: Static and Dynamic. each aspect gives various feelings. Static: rest, calm and steady. Dynamic: feels not stable. Every geometry holds specific vibration.

This picture by Charles Gilchrist represents that everything around us include the Golden ratio even our bodies (from head to belly button and from feet to belly button is also a golden ratio).

Ceiling of Jame Mosque of Yazad, Iran

“…Islamic Art is far less a way of expressing emotion than a science and that a Muslim artist will willingly subordinate his individuality to the, as it were, objective and impersonal beauty of his work.”

Originally the islamic patterns derived from similar designs in earlier cultures: Greek, Roman and Persians.

Islamic geometric patterns are the most recognisable visual expressions of Islamic Art and architecture. The process of creating these meaningful patterns is by multiplying one pattern. Each  each of them  consists geometric forms which were divided into equal sectors. The starting point of every pattern is a perfect circle. Islamic Art avoids images with figures to avoid becoming objects of worship.