3D print the Blue Mosque
A free, printable model of the mosque's central dome, courtyard and six minarets, with the parks, paths and streets around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
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- On a 160 mm print
- 22 mm
- Scale
- 1:3,750
22 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.
- Six slender minarets
The six tall, thin minarets are the most delicate parts of this model. Print friendly adapts them to your print scale; Full detail keeps them, so print larger and slow down for the tallest parts.
- Many small domes
The courtyard arcade and the stepped roofs are covered in small domes. Layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm keep their curves smooth, and a larger print keeps more of them.
- One piece with the ground
The Blue 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 Blue 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 Blue Mosque
The Blue Mosque, formally the Sultan Ahmed Mosque (Sultanahmet Camii), is an imperial mosque of the Ottoman era in Istanbul. It was built between 1609 and 1617, during the reign of Ahmed I. After the Peace of Zsitvatorok, viewed as damaging to Ottoman prestige, the sultan resolved to build a large mosque, hoping to win God's favor. The ulema, Islamic legal scholars, objected that sultans should pay for an imperial mosque only with spoils of conquest, and the sultan had won no major victories. He went ahead anyway, and the opening ceremony was held in 1617.
Its architect, Sedefkar Mehmed Agha, drew on the ideas of his master Sinan and based the design on the earlier Şehzade Mosque. The prayer hall measures 64 by 72 meters (210 by 236 ft) under a central dome 23.5 meters (77 ft) across. Four semi-domes surround it, and three smaller semi-domes or exedrae flank each one. The main dome stands 43 meters (141 ft) high. Outside, there are six minarets, facilities for ablutions and a large courtyard leading to the prayer hall.
Inside, thousands of Iznik tiles, plus painted floral motifs in mostly blue tones, account for the mosque's popular name. The külliye, or religious complex, includes Ahmed I's tomb and a madrasa. The mosque stands across from the Hagia Sophia, next to the former Hippodrome, and gave its name to the surrounding neighborhood, Sultanahmet. It became part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1985, listed as the Historic Areas of Istanbul.
About this model
The Blue Mosque is one of more than 4,300 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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