Name

Ottoman Mosque, Exposition Universelle, 1867

Address
Champ de Mars
75007 Paris
Geographical Hierarchy
Author and Date of Entry
Franziska Niemand 2023
Information about the Building

The Ottoman Mosque was, alongside the Pavillon du Bosphore, the Ottoman Baths, and a gateway, one of the architectural structures commissioned by the Ottomans for the Exposition Universelle of 1867 in Paris. For the first time at a world’s fair, pavilions were erected in the park outside the main exhibition hall.
The plans for the Ottoman Mosque were originally made by Barborini, but when architect-decorator Léon Parvillée executed them, he modified them considerably and designed all the details himself (Exposition Universelle de 1867, 1867, p. 2). Parvillée’s mosque was based on his study of the 15th-century Yeşil Cami (Green Mosque) in Bursa; yet it was on a smaller scale than the latter, and had additional elements, such as the two fountains at the corners. It included several stucco and glass windows.

Literature

Exposition Universelle de 1867 (1867). Coup d'oeil sur l'exposition ottomane. Imprimerie A.-E. Rochette.

Saint Laurent, B. (1986). Léon Parvillée. His Role as Restorer of Bursa's Monuments and his Contribution to the Exposition Universelle of 1867. In H. Batu, & J.-L. Bacqué-Grammont (Eds.), L`Empire Ottoman, la République de la Turquie et la France (pp. 247–282). Editions isis.

Çelik, Z. (1992). Displaying the Orient: architecture of Islam at nineteenth-century world's fairs, University of California Press.