@article{2018,title={SOURCES TO THE CONSTITUTIONAL SULTAN AHMED COMPLEX},abstractNode={The recording and storage of official documents is an activity that brings the significance of history to the state of concept communities. In the Ottoman Empire, people and institutions related to the keeping and preservation of official records fulfilled their duties in order to provide access to thousands of documents daily. The records of the institutions such as the Prime Ministry Ottoman Archives, the Archive of the Topkapi Palace Museum, the General Directorate of Land Registry and Cadastre Archives, the Archives of Sher'iye Records, and the Archives of the General Directorate of Foundations, which are the main archives of the Ottoman State as well as twenty other states; people, structures and lands. It is the subject of this study that how such an important structure, which constitutes one of the beautiful examples of 17th century Ottoman architecture like the Sultan Ahmed Complex, takes place in these records. Since the day-to-day construction, repair, expense, revenue records correspond to thousands of documents from the construction of the building, the documentary which only defines the construction process is included in this study. It was tried to give information about the genus, nature, subject and content of the documents describing the construction process.},author={Aliye ÖTEN},year={2018},journal={The Journal of Academic Social Science}}