As one of the key elements of Islamic Culture, Turkic States have been paying attention to every details of its place of Worships. From Seljuks to Ottomans, then to modern Turkey designing and building spectacular mosques in order to praise their gratefulness to their creator, the God.

From the Ottoman-era, the mosques have been built with nearly the same design, but there are few, coming into prominence with their unique and bold line of vision in modern Turkey. Approaching -and maybe challenging- to change into something sacred might have been seen unnecessary, but accomplishing it and finding a way for the prayers to think deeper and feel more with an eye-catching architecture is a great accomplishment.

• Sancaklar Mosque: “Depending on the fact that a mosque does not have a predefined form and anywhere clean may be a prayer’s room, the project focused solely on the “essence” of a religious space, by distancing itself from discussions on form. Physical and emotional pleasure was at the forefront. The design aimed at representing purest forms of light and matter, just as a primary inner world, free from all cultural burdens. The disappearance of the building in the slope of the site, anchorage to the ground as if it has always been there, getting rid of all temporal and cultural engagements were aimed.” saying, award-winner Emre Arolat the designer of the Sancaklar Mosque.
• Sakirin Mosque: the very first example of contemporary mosques in Turkey, Sakirin Mosque keeps the tradition and moves forward with the new. As an interior designer, short-listed for Aga-Khan Prize '10, Zeynep Fadillioglu used her all knowledge about the past and present to create something to stand out and charm whom to come to pray.