Sacred Places

Sultan Ahmed Mosque

Sultan Ahmed Mosque
The Sultan Ahmed Mosque or Sultan Ahmet Mosque (Turkish: Sultan Ahmet Camii) is a historic mosque located in Istanbul, Turkey. A popular tourist site, the Sultan Ahmed Mosque continues to function as a mosque today; men still kneel in prayer on the mosque's lush red carpet after the call to prayer. The Blue Mosque, as…
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Şehzade Complex

Şehzade Complex
Sehzade Complex (Külliye) was built for Prince Mehmet, the son of the Süleiman the Magnificient whom he liked the most and ideally thought to enthrone him. Although the construction date of the complex was never precisely known, it was written on the Sarcophagus of Prince Mehmet that “the mosque was completed in the month of…
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Nuruosmanıye Complex

Nuruosmanıye Complex
The Nuruosmaniye Complex is a complex in which Baroque style of Western architectural concept was mostly used and both ornamentation and handworks were excessively applied to it. Construction on the Nuruosmaniye Complex began in 1749 during the rule of Mahmud I (1730-1754) and was completed by his brother and successor Osman III (1754-1757) in 1755.…
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The New Mosque Complex

The New Mosque Complex
The New Valide Mosque complex, which is opposite the Egyptian Bazaar in the Eminönü district of Istanbul, has the feature of having a long construction term during Ottoman History.Its construction had been started on behalf of Safiye Sultan, a wife of Sultan Murad III. (1546 -1595), in 1597, and after its construction was stopped in…
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Edirnekapi Mihrimah Sultan Complex

Edirnekapi Mihrimah Sultan Complex
The Mihrimah Sultan mosque is located on Fevzi Pasa Street at Edirnekapi neighborhood in Fatih County. The mosque was built between 1562-1565 by the architect Sinan by the order of Mihrimah Sultan, daughter of Süleyman the Magnificent. Its construction was continued from 1562 to1565 and it had a a large amount of damage during an…
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Uskudar Mihrimah Sultan Complex

Uskudar Mihrimah Sultan Complex
It is one of the two complexes in Istanbul which were built on the instructions of Süleyman the Magnificient in 1548 in memory of his daughter Mihrimah Sultan, and has an attribute of carrying the same name in Edirnekapi District. The historical complex was located over against the port side of Uskudar in 1548. In…
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Damat Ibrahim Pasa Complex

Damat Ibrahim Pasa Complex
The complex was built on the instructions of Nevsehirli Damat Ibrahim Paşa (1718-1730) in 1720. It is located at the corner of Dede Efendi Street and Şehzadepaşa Street, and is composed of a library and Darul Hadith (Faculty of Specialty in Hadith Sciences). The grave of Damat Ibrahim Paşa and his sons are present in…
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Piyale Paşa Complex

Piyale Paşa Complex
The Piyale Paşa Complex - Piyale Paşa, who ordered its construction, was an Admiral of the Navy and also the son-in-law of Sultan Selim II (1524-1574) - was built by Architect Sinan in the Kasımpaşa district of Beyoglu county in 1573. The complex is composed of a mosque, a Sıbyan Mektebi (Ottoman elementary-primary school), a…
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Mahmut Paşa Complex

Mahmut Paşa Complex
The Mahmut Paşa Complex was built as the first vizier complex in Eminönü. In fact, it is this complex that gave the district its name since Eminönü means Mahmud Paşa, a grand vizier of Sultan Mehmet II, had it built by the architect Atik Sinan after the conquest of Istanbul in 1453. The construction of…
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Laleli Complex

Laleli Complex
The Laleli Complex is located at the intersection of Ordu and Fethi Bey Streets in the Laleli Neighborhood of the Eminönü district. It consists of a mosque (cami), madrasa (medrese), fountain (çeşme), sabil, soup-kitchen (imaret), a room for the timekeeper of the mosque (muvakkithane), and a han. The complex’s construction began with the mosque, whose…
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