METU JOURNAL OF THE FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE, cilt.35, sa.2, ss.1-28, 2018 (AHCI)
Suleymaniye Complex in Damascus, built on the bank of Barada River as the last stop before the desert on the pilgrimage route extending from the Balkans to Mecca, is one of the works of Hassa Chief Architect Sinan, which was designed according to the basic principles of the Ottoman classical period architecture, and built between 1554 and 1559.