3D print the Arap Mosque
A free, printable model of the Arap Mosque in Karaköy, with the surrounding streets and buildings of its Istanbul neighborhood, generated from real map data in your browser.
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- On a 160 mm print
- 12 mm
- Scale
- 1:3,750
12 mm tall on a 160 mm print
Make this print opens the generator on a 600 m square around the landmark. Buildings print at close to true scale, so the landmark grows with the print size.
- Broad roof, low walls
The mosque is a broad, low building with a large roof. Printing larger keeps the roof edges and windows clear, and 0.12 to 0.16 mm layers preserve the small vertical detail.
- One piece with the ground
The Arap Mosque is joined to the ground in the exported file, and the four-side check found no floating parts, so nothing needs gluing.
- Pick the detail for your nozzle
In the Buildings settings, set Landmark detail to Print friendly to adapt thin parts and small details to the print scale. Full detail keeps every modeled feature, for larger prints or a finer nozzle.
- Colors
Buildings, roads, water and ground arrive as separate filament slots in the 3MF. The Arap Mosque takes the building color.
- File format
You get a 3MF for Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer or PrusaSlicer. Any of them can save it as STL if you need one.
About the Arap Mosque
Arap Mosque occupies a site in Karaköy, part of Istanbul's Beyoğlu district, on Galata Mahkemesi Sokak near the Golden Horn's northern shore. It started as a Roman Catholic church that Dominican friars built in 1325, close to or over a chapel of Saint Paul dating from 1233. Ottoman changes followed, yet no other medieval Gothic religious building survives in Istanbul.
Under Sultan Mehmed II, between 1475 and 1478, the Ottomans turned it into a mosque called the Galata Mosque. Bayezid II then handed it to Muslims from Al-Andalus, refugees who escaped the Inquisition in 1492 and settled in Galata; their arrival produced the name Arab Mosque. Saliha Sultan restored it in 1734/35 after Galata's Great Fire of 1731, replacing Gothic windows and portal with Ottoman ones. Adile Sultan made further repairs in the mid-nineteenth century and added a courtyard fountain in 1868.
The former church kept a three-nave rectangular base, with a square sanctuary under ribbed groin vaults. Its Gothic portal, lancet windows and bell tower set it apart from the city's Byzantine churches, and the tower gained a conical roof when it became a minaret. A restoration in 1913–1919 gave the building its flat wooden roof and its wooden galleries. A large courtyard with a fountain lies on the north side.
About this model
The Arap Mosque is one of more than 4,400 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
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