Selimiye Mosque is a well-known monument in many parts of the world with its unique architecture. In Selimiye, which is located on a hill, special architectural details have been used. Selimiye Mosque is covered with a single lebi with a height of 43.25 meters and a diameter of 31.25 meters. The dome is also seated on a pulley based on 8 columns.
The pulley is connected to its filaments by 6 meter wide belts. The interior, designed in this way, has a design that is easily understandable at once. There are minarets in the four corners of the mosque and each minaret has three cheers.
Some of the tiles of the Selimiye Mosque, which attracts attention with its marble, tile and calligraphy works, were dismantled by the Russian general Mikhail Skobelev during the Ottoman-Russian War of 1877-1878 and taken to Moscow.
There is an elaborate fountain made of marble in the middle of the courtyard of the Selimiye Mosque, which has three doors opening to the north, south and courtyard. There is also a Siberian school, a darul kurra, a darul hadith, a madrasa and an imaret in the outer courtyard.
There is an inverted tulip under one of the marble legs of the muezzin chamber of the mosque. According to the rumor of this, there were tulips in the plot where the mosque was built before. The owner of the land did not want his land to be sold first. Finally, he sold his land by asking Mimar Sinan to have a tulip motif in the mosque. The reason Mimar Sinan made the tulip motif in reverse was to indicate the owner's inverse.