3D print the Church-Mosque of Vefa
A free, printable 3D model of the Church-Mosque of Vefa in Istanbul and the surrounding streets and buildings, generated from real map data in your browser.
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Church-Mosque of Vefa in 3D
The landmark on its own, at its size on a 160 mm print. Print friendly thickens thin parts for a 0.4 mm nozzle; Full detail keeps every part.
- On a 160 mm print
- 7 mm
- Scale
- 1:3,750
7 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.
- Small church details
Fine parts of a small church can blur at small sizes. Print friendly adapts them to the print scale; a bigger print or Full detail keeps more of them, and a 0.12–0.16 mm layer height keeps edges crisp.
- One piece with the ground
The Church-Mosque of Vefa 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 Church-Mosque of Vefa 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 Church-Mosque of Vefa
The Church-Mosque of Vefa, called Vefa Kilise Camii in Turkish and also known as Molla Gürani Camii, is a former Eastern Orthodox church that the Ottomans converted into a mosque. It lies in the Vefa neighborhood of the Fatih district of Istanbul, south of the Süleymaniye Mosque, a few hundred meters away. Its dedication may have been to Hagios Theodoros (St. Theodore), though that is far from certain. Judging by its masonry, it was built in the 10th or 11th century.
The church proper follows a cross-in-square plan measuring nine meters along each side. Its walls are brick laid in the recessed brick technique typical of middle Byzantine architecture. The Ottomans took Constantinople, and soon afterward the Kurdish scholar Molla Gürâni, tutor of Sultan Mehmed II, founded a mosque in the church. The mosque also carries his name. A restoration in 1848 largely destroyed the mosaics that adorned the building, and the surviving ones were uncovered and cleaned in 1937. Another restoration ran from 2017 to 2021.
A western exonarthex is among the most typical examples of Palaiologan work in Constantinople. Three domes surmount it: the two side domes are of the umbrella type and the central dome is ribbed. Its facade has two orders opened with arcades, and the banded, colorful brickwork and stonework is especially visible on the north side.
About this model
The Church-Mosque of Vefa is one of more than 5,500 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Each model is written as code from public descriptions, plans, photographs and aerial views used only as references; no image or third-party model is copied into it. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. Rights in the building itself, its name and any brands on it are not granted by Mini Skyline; clear them separately before you sell prints. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
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