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English: The Balyan family (Armenian: Պալեաններ) was a Armenian dynasty of famous Ottoman Imperial architects. For five generations in the 18th and 19th centuries, they designed and constructed numerous major buildings, including palaces, kiosks, mosques, churches, and various public buildings, mostly in Constantinople, present-day Istanbul. The nine well-known members of the family served six sultans in the course of almost a century and were responsible for the westernization of the architecture of the then-capital. The mosque is in the neoclassical style, like the Dolmabahçe one, in the same style. Also known as the Great Mecidiye Mosque. It was significantly damaged in an 1894 earthquake, comb and cone sections of the minaret were reconstructed. A notice describes the underground is also instable, so major repair in 1960’s was executed. And in 1984 a fire made a new restoration necessary. As was the habit in that period, for Sultan’s mosques, there is an ample royal pavilion in front of the entrance (on either side of the entrance stairs). The prayer section is covered with a dome.