Zeynep Sultan Mosque

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Zeynep Sultan Mosque
Zeynep Sultan Mosque

The Zeynep Sultan Mosque (in Turkish Zeynep Sultan Camii) is a mosque built in 1769 by Ayazma Mosque's architect Mehmet Tahir Ağa for Ahmed III's daughter Zeynep Asıme Sultan. It evokes Byzantine churches because of its architectural style and materials that were used in its construction.

The mosque is across the Gülhane, and in the back side of the mosque there is a building which was once used as mektep[1] and now being used as primary school. The part once used as sebil[2] is now closed. In front of the mosque there is a fountain which was actually part of Abd-al-Hamid I's külliye[3]. Fountain was carried here in 1920s when 4. Vakıf Han's construction in Eminönü. Osmanlı Araştırmaları Vakfı is above the Mosque.

Alemdar Mustafa Pasha's grave is in hazîre[4] of the mosque and due to road construction Zeynep Sultan's corpse in the cellar is waiting for the time of her new tomb's construction. The grave of Melek Mehmet Pasha, who was Selim III's Grand Vizier and Zeynep Sultan's husband, is in the hazîre of the mosque.

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  1. ^ mektep: is word for school in Ottoman era
  2. ^ sebil: free water fountain adjacent to a mosque
  3. ^ külliye: complex of buildings adjacent to a mosque
  4. ^ hazîre: Grave part bordered with railings in places like mosque, tomb, dervish lodge etc.
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