MARDİN ET VE KEBAP SALONU

Beyazıt, Fatih - İstanbul - Turkey

GPS : 41°00'35.4"N 28°58'07.0"E / 41.009838, 28.968609

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M E N U

KEBAPLAR / KEBABS
Mardin Kebap
Adana Kebap
Urfa Kebap
Kuzu Şiş
Patlıcanlı Kebap
Domatesli Kebap
Sarma Beyti
Kanat
Tavuk Şiş
Karışık Izgara
Çöp Şiş

PİDELER / PITAS
Lahmacun
Sembusek
Etli Ekmek
Kaşarlı Pide
Kıymalı Pide
Sucuklu Pide
Cıvıklı
Karışık Pide

GÜVEÇ / CASSEROLES
Kiremit Et Sote
Kiremit Tavuk Sote

ÇORBA / SOUPS
Süzme Mercimek
Ezogelin

TATLI / DESSERTS
Cevizli Kadayıf

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WEB SITE : Mardin Et ve Kebap Salonu

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E-Mail : info@mardinkebap.com
Phone : +90 212 511 9708  / +90 212 511 9709
Mobile : +90 532 371 6098

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BİRBEN KEBAP - LAHMACUN

Eminönü, Fatih - İstanbul - Turkey

GPS : 41°00'58.5"N 28°58'23.3"E / 41.016257, 28.973142

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KEBABS
ADANA KEBAP
URFA KEBAP
FISTIKLI KEBAP
DOMATESLI KEBAP
PATLICANLI KEBAP
HAŞHAŞ KEBAP
BEYTI KEBAP
KEBAPTAN İSKENDER

GRILLS
IZGARA ŞİŞLER
IZGARA KÖFTE
DANA ÇÖP ŞIŞ
KUZU ÇÖP ŞIŞ
DANA BONFILE
KUZU CIĞER ŞIŞ
TAVUK ŞIŞ
KANAT IZGARA
KARIŞIK IZGARA (TEK KIŞILIK)
KARIŞIK IZGARA (İKI KIŞILIK)
KARIŞIK IZGARA (ÜÇ KIŞILIK)
KARIŞIK IZGARA (DÖRT KIŞILIK)

APPETIZERS
KARIŞIK MEZE TABAĞI
ÇORBA
İÇLI KÖFTE
HUMUS
BABAGANNUŞ
ALI NAZIK
HAYDARI
PATATES TAVA

SALADS
ÇOBAN SALATA
MEVSIM SALATA
GAVURDAĞI SALATA
TURŞU

WRAPS
ADANA DÜRÜM
URFA DÜRÜM
ÇÖP ŞIŞ DÜRÜM
TAVUK ŞIŞ DÜRÜM
KUZU CIĞER DÜRÜM
FISTIKLI KEBAP DÜRÜM

LAHMACUN
LAHMACUN
ANTEP LAHMACUN

PITAS
PEYNIRLI PIDE
KUŞBAŞILI PIDE
KIYMALI PIDE
KAVURMALI-KAŞARLI PIDE
KARIŞIK PIDE
SUCUKLU PIDE
SEBZELI PIDE
TAVUKLU PIDE

BURGERS
KLASIK BURGER
CHEESE BURGER

DESSERTS
KÜNEFE
BAKLAVA
KADAYIF

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WEB SITE : BirBen Restaurant

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E-Mail : info@birbenrestaurant.com
Phone : +90 212 522 0303

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BİRBEN KEBAP - LAHMACUN

Eminönü, Fatih - İstanbul - Turkey

GPS : 41°00'58.5"N 28°58'23.3"E / 41.016257, 28.973142

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KEBABS
ADANA KEBAP
URFA KEBAP
FISTIKLI KEBAP
DOMATESLI KEBAP
PATLICANLI KEBAP
HAŞHAŞ KEBAP
BEYTI KEBAP
KEBAPTAN İSKENDER
IZGARA ŞİŞLER
IZGARA KÖFTE
DANA ÇÖP ŞIŞ
KUZU ÇÖP ŞIŞ
DANA BONFILE
KUZU CIĞER ŞIŞ
TAVUK ŞIŞ
KANAT IZGARA
KARIŞIK IZGARA (TEK KIŞILIK)
KARIŞIK IZGARA (İKI KIŞILIK)
KARIŞIK IZGARA (ÜÇ KIŞILIK)
KARIŞIK IZGARA (DÖRT KIŞILIK)

APPETIZERS
KARIŞIK MEZE TABAĞI
ÇORBA
İÇLI KÖFTE
HUMUS
BABAGANNUŞ
ALI NAZIK
HAYDARI
PATATES TAVA

SALADS
ÇOBAN SALATA
MEVSIM SALATA
GAVURDAĞI SALATA
TURŞU

WRAPS
ADANA DÜRÜM
URFA DÜRÜM
ÇÖP ŞIŞ DÜRÜM
TAVUK ŞIŞ DÜRÜM
KUZU CIĞER DÜRÜM
FISTIKLI KEBAP DÜRÜM

LAHMACUN
LAHMACUN
ANTEP LAHMACUN

PITAS
PEYNIRLI PIDE
KUŞBAŞILI PIDE
KIYMALI PIDE
KAVURMALI-KAŞARLI PIDE
KARIŞIK PIDE
SUCUKLU PIDE
SEBZELI PIDE
TAVUKLU PIDE

BURGERS
KLASIK BURGER
CHEESE BURGER

DESSERTS
KÜNEFE
BAKLAVA
KADAYIF

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WEB SITE : BirBen Restaurant

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E-Mail : info@birbenrestaurant.com
Phone : +90 212 522 0303

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TURGUT KEBAP

Sultanahmet, Fatih - İstanbul - Turkey

GPS : 41°00'16.7"N 28°58'45.0"E / 41.004638, 28.979158

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STARTERS
Puff Bread, Soup, Chicken Salad, Tuna Fish Salad, Seosonal Salad, Cheese Salad, Tomato Salad, Rice, Olive Onion Wraping, Cold Appetizers Mixed, Mince Vegatables Salad, Potato Cips, Garlic With Yoghurt, Cheese Plate

PİTAS
Roasted Pita, Chicken Cheese Pita, Pita With Egg Cheese, Pita with Cheese Sausage, Pita with Egg Cheese, Pita With Cheddar Cheese, Lahmacun, Pita with Minced Lamb Meet, Pita with Chopped Meat, Pita with Feta Cheese, Mix Pita

HOT POTS
Beef Roasting Sheet, Test Kebab Lamb, Chicken Roasting Sheet, Lamb Roasting Sheet , Lamb Thigh, Salted Fish, Salted Chicken, Tile Chicken, Tile Meat, Tile of lamb, Test Kebab Chicken,
Test Kebab Beef

KEBAPS
Mixed Kebab, Lamb chops, Meat Steak, Shrimp stew, Perch, Seabream, Ali Nazik, Meat Doner, Chicken chop, Urfa kebab, Chicken Şiş, Pieces Beef, Lamb Şiş, Lamb Liver, Aubergine Kebap,
Tomato Kebap, Chicken Wings, İskender Kebap

PIZZAS
Orta Boy, Buyuk Boy, Mixed pizza, Margarita Pizza, Pizza with Fish, Pizza with Chicken, Pizza

WRAPS
Chicken Wrap with Cheddar, Cheese Adana Wraps, Lamb Liver Wrap, Garbage Skewer Wrap, Chicken Shish Wrap, Aubergine, Onion, Tomato, Gren Wrap

VEGETARIAN
Pasta, Vegetarian Sandwich, Lahmacun Vegetarian, Pizza Vegetarian, Vegetarian Kebab, Sheet Roasting Vegeterian, Pita Vegetarian, Tile vegetarian, Test Kebab Vegetarian

BREAKFAST
Breakfast Plate, Cheddar Eggs, Scrambled Eggs, Roasted Eggs, Menemen with Cheese, Egg with sausage, Roasted Omelette, Omelette with Potato, Omelette with Cheese, Sausage Omelette, Omelette

DESSERTS
Fruit plate, Ice cream, Suffle, Katmer, Oven Rice Pudding, Baklava

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WEB SITE : Turgut Kebap

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E-Mail : turgutdurumpide@hotmail.com
Phone : +90 212 517 2227
Mobile : +90 552 243 9227

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KEBABÇI MAHMUT RESTAURANT since 1977

Akşemsettin, Fatih - İstanbul - Turkey

GPS : 41°00'55.6"N 28°56'35.3"E / 41.015456, 28.943138

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Mahmut who started to work at a small kebab restaurant in 1977, later on started to manage a kebab restaurant with his brothers in the early 1980. However, this first work attempt did not work as expected and the brother continued working as employees where they first started. Later on, the foundation of the place now known as Ziya Oriental Table was established in 1982 at Fatih Vatan Street on a 5 square meter shed. Their kebabs started to get known all over Turkey. They were even sent to the prime minister at that time Turgut Özal...

The founding partner of Ziya Oriental Table Mahmut Bingöl continues to create quality tastes with his own experience and practice by doing the managing of Ziya Oriental Table with his business life since 2009.

Kebab Shop Mahmut; is a restaurant built on years of experiences, and a devoted foundation and traditions. We serve you from İstanbul, the most beautiful city in the world at the most central place, the Historic Peninsula Fatih. We serve you our experiences, art, traditional tastes with my friends who are specialists at their own field and successful at the service sector at our restaurant.

Regenerating the cuisine culture of Anatolian, Kebapçı Mahmut has proven its success with the concept of “Kebab & Steak” and it has achieved both national and international standard and quality.

Steak
Regional delicacies
Appetizers
Grilled varieties (Shish)
Salads
Pot Kebab and Salt-cured Chicken
Rice Dishes
Hot Starters
Drinks
Desserts We offer a wide selection of unique tastes from Ottoman and Turkish cuisines.
Meter Kebab longish flavor....
Kebabs You must certainly try our mixed kebabs varieties offering un

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WEB SITE : Kebapçı Mahmut Restaurant

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E-Mail : info@kebapcimahmut.com.tr
Phone : +90 212 525 1111 / +90 533 597 6742

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HÜRREM ÇAVUŞ MOSQUE

Fatih - İstanbul - Turkey

GPS : 41°01'19.1"N 28°56'11.6"E / 41.021972, 28.936556



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Hirka-i Şerif Camii is built on a high terrace, partly artificial; to the south a long staircase leads down to a lower monumental gateway opening from the street below, Keçeciler Caddesi, the Avenue of the Goat Herder. If turn right (west) and follow this street, we come after 500 metres or so to a little mosque on the left which is of no interest save that its architect was Sinan. It was built in 1560, as an inscription shows, by a certain Hürrem who was a çavuş (messenger) in the Divan.

It is of the rectangular type with wooden roof and porch; restorations are recorded in 1844 and 1901. Perhaps because of these, it has lost any charm it may once have had. Just across the lane from the garden of the mosque there is a pleasant tea house named after Koca Mimar Sinan, the architect. One might feel inclined to rest here for awhile and have a glass or two of tea before strolling back to the main avenue.

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DRAMAN MOSQUE

Draman, Fatih - İstanbul - Turkey

GPS : 41°01'43.9"N 28°56'38.7"E / 41.028870, 28.944077



Yunus Bey, the translator (Dragoman) of Sultan Süleyman, had Architect Sinan build the Draman Mosque in 1541, which is 200 m far from Fethiye Mosque. It is said that after the death of Yunus Bey, his brother Mustafa Bey had the mosque completed to measurements of 13.57 x 12 m. It is single vaulted.

The inscription on the mosque is the work of Ebussuud Efendi, Sheikh ul-islam of the Ottoman Sultanate. The lodge lost its features during the restoration works held after the fire of 1729 and later it was called Sheikh Isazade. It was rebuilt by Sultan Mustafa III in 1764. The mosque, having been repaired many times for different reasons, was used continually until the abolishment of the lodges in 1925.

The Mosque received fire damage in 1729 and repaired by Sultan Ahmet III in the same year. It was restored in 1746 by a decree from Sultan Osman III, and once again in 1873 by Sultan Abdülaziz. During the 1985 restoration, the upper structure was renewed as a masonry dome. The portico has been enclosed; the fountain is not original either. The courtyard of the Mosque is now used by the Fatih Müftülüğü Tercüman Yunus Kuran Kursu, for religious studies.

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YARHİSAR MOSQUE

Zeyrek, Fatih - İstanbul - Turkey

GPS : 41°01'20.8"N 28°57'08.7"E / 41.022444, 28.952417



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Yarhisar Camii, the second oldest mosque in the city, apparently pre-dated only by Sağrıcılar Camii. According to the register of pious foundations (Hayrat Kaydı) this mosque was built in 1461; its founder Musliheddin Mustafa Efendi was Judge of Istanbul in Fatih’s reign.

It was once a handsome edifice, built entirely of ashlar stone, its square chamber covered by a dome on pendentives, preceded by a porch with two domes and three columns.

It was burned in the great fire of 1917 which consumed most of this district, but even in its ruined state it was a fine and dignified structure. In 1954-6 the building was restored, with a thin veneer of brick and stone, Byzantine, covering the original structure, and the interior was redecorated.

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KUYUCU MURAT PASHA MOSQUE COMPLEX

Vezneciler, Fatih - İstanbul - Turkey

GPS : 41°00'46.3"N 28°57'29.2"E / 41.012863, 28.958122



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The building complex is about 17. Century with a madrasa, a tomb, primary school and sabil(serving fountain) perhaps at the time of chief architect Sedefkar Mehmet Ağa, during the reign of Ottoman Sultan Ahmet I. The inner part of the Madrasa is serving as Fine Arts Department of Istanbul Unıversity. The other parts and magazins are rented to individuals by the foundation.

The classical style Madrasah was built by Grand Vizier Kuyucu Murat Pasha, of Pomak origin, in 1610. L-shaped, with 14 rooms, the madrasah undergone numerous restorations during its history. Kuyucu Murat Pasha Madrasah in Vezneciler Street. Kuyucu Murat Pasha Madrasah is today the Faculty of Fine Arts of İstanbul University.

This elegant little complex was built in 1606 by Kuyucu Murat Paşa, Grand Vezir in the reign of Sultan Ahmet I. Murat Paşa received his nickname kuyucu, or the pit-digger, from his favourite occupation of supervising the digging of trenches for the mass burials of the rebels he had slaughtered.

The apex of the triangle is formed by the columned sebil, with simple classical lines. Facing the street is an arcade of shops in the middle of which a doorway leads to the courtyard of the medrese.

The tomb of the Kuyucu Murat Pasha, who died in 1611, is situated next to the madrasah. Also, buried in the tomb, are Abaza Ahmet Pasha (1638) and Cağaloğlu Sinan Paşazade Mehmet Pasha.

Entering, we find the türbe of the founder in the acute angle behind the sebil, and at the other end the dershane, which, as so often, served also as a small mosque. This building has been taken over and restored by Istanbul University; the courtyard has been roofed in and used as a small museum, while the dershane contains a library.

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KANTARCILAR MOSQUE

Kantarcılar, Fatih - İstanbul - Turkey

GPS : 41°01'07.1"N 28°57'57.4"E / 41.018639, 28.965944



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Kantarcılar Mescidi, the mescit, or small mosque, of the Scale-Makers, named after the guild whose artisans have had their workshops in this neighbourhood for centuries. This mosque was founded during Fatih’s reign by Sarı Demirci Mevlana Mehmet Muhittin. It has since been reconstructed several times and is of little interest except for its great age.

One of the oldest mosques in İstanbul, the Kantarcılar Masjid was built in the second half of the 15th century. Kadızade Mehmet Efendi turned the masjid into a mosque by adding a pulpit in 1688. After being restored between 1848 and 1895, the mosque lost its unique features.

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ÜÇ BAŞ MOSQUE

Atikali, Fatih - İstanbul - Turkey

GPS : 41°01'30.1"N 28°56'35.1"E / 41.025028, 28.943083



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Üç Baş Camii, the tiny mosque we see to the right of the square. Evliya Çelebi tells us that the mosque received this odd name "because it was built by a barber who shaved three heads for one small piece of money, and, notwithstanding, grew so rich that he was enabled to build this mosque; it is small but particularly sanctified".

A more prosaic explanation is given in the Hadika, a comprehensive description of the mosques of Istanbul written in 1780; there we learn that the founder, Nureddin Hamza ben Atallah, came from a village in Anatolia called Üç Baş.

Madrasa of Üç Baş located in the threshold of the mosque, which was built with bricks and Stones, is dilapidated and idle. In addition to these, there is a little cemetery in the threshold.

An inscription over the gate gives the date of foundation as A.H. 940 (A.D. 1532-3). The mosque is of no interest except for its name. Opposite the mosque there is a ruined medrese, founded in 1575 by a certain Halil Efendi. In the centre of the square is an old fountain, the beautifully written inscription on which indicates that it was founded by one Mustafa Ağa in 1681.

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ÜÇ MİHRAPLI (KAZANCILAR) MOSQUE

Küçükpazar, Fatih - İstanbul - Turkey

GPS : 41°01'12.8"N 28°57'47.8"E / 41.020222, 28.963278



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The Üç Mihraplı Mosque or Kazancılar Mosque (mosque with three mihrabs), or the Üç Mihraplı Hoca Hayreddin Mosque, is located in the neighborhood of Küçükpazar, Unkapanı, İstanbul. This mosque built in the 1475 is the only mosque in İstanbul that has three mihrabs. Situated on the Unkapanı Road, in a place called Küçükpazar, Üç Mihraplı Mosque with the features it possesses is a quite interesting mosque. The benefactor of the mosque is Hoca Hayrettin Efendi who tutored Fatih Sultan Mehmet in time.

The mosque was built in 874, and its second mihrab was added by Sultan Mehmed II (the Conqueror) and the third one by the wife of Hayreddin Efendi’s son Ahmed Efendi, who died when he was the kadı (judge) of Damascus. The mosque’s last mihrab was added when the bride of Hoca Hayreddin Efendi added her house to the mosque.

The main body of the building, which seems to be original in form though heavily restored, consists of a square room covered by a dome resting on a high blind drum, worked in the form of a series of triangles so that pendentives or squinches are dispensed with.

In the dome are some rather curious arabesque designs, not in the grand manner of the sixteenth or seventeenth centuries nor yet in the degenerate Italian taste of the nineteenth; they are unique in the city and quite attractive both in design and colour.

The deep porch has three domes only, the arches being supported at each end by rectangular piers and in the centre by a single marble column. The door is not in the middle but on the right-hand side, so as not to be blocked by the column; this arrangement, too, was common in the preclassical period, but there are only a very few such examples in the city.

To the south of the main building is a rectangular annexe with a flat ceiling and two mihrabs; it is through this annexe that we enter the mosque today. According to one authority this section is wholly new; possibly, but as far as form goes, it might well be the dwelling house added by Hayreddin’s daughter-in-law.

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BURMALI MOSQUE

Saraçhane, Fatih - İstanbul - Turkey

GPS : 41°00'53.4"N 28°57'22.6"E / 41.014833, 28.956278



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A pretty little mosque, recently restored, called Burmalı Cami. It was built about 1550 by the Kadı (Judge) of Egypt, Emin Nurettin Osman Efendi. Although of the very simplest kind - a square room with a flat wooden ceiling - it has several peculiarities that give it a cachet of its own. Most noticeable is the brick minaret with spiral ribs, from which the mosque gets its name (burmah = spiral); this is unique in Istanbul and is a late survival of an older tradition.

Then the porch is also unique: its roof, which is pitched, not domed, is supported by four columns with Byzantine Corinthian capitals. The reuse of ancient capitals also occurred in the earlier architecture of Bursa and among the Selçuks, but it is very rare indeed in Istanbul.

The architect who so ably restored the mosque, found the original Corinthian capitals so decayed and broken as to be unusable in the restoration, but architect was able to find in the Archaeological Museum four others of the same type with which she replaced the originals.

Finally, the entrance portal is not in the middle but on the right-hand side. This is usual in mosques whose porches are supported by three columns only - so as to prevent the door being blocked by the central column - but here there seems no reason for it. The interior of the mosque has no special features.

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SAĞRICILAR (YAVUZ ER SİNAN) MOSQUE

Unkapanı, Fatih - İstanbul - Turkey

GPS : 41°01'17.6"N 28°57'43.8"E / 41.021556, 28.962167



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The mosque, which was built by Yavuz Er Sinan, banner bearer of Sultan Mehmet II, in 1455, is the oldest surviving mosque in İstanbul. It was restored in 1905 after the earthquake of 1894. However, it remained as a ruin for a long time after the fire of 1918. Renovated in 1960, the mosque measures 8.22 x 8.24 m. The fountain next to the mosque was restored in 1882.

When Horoz Dede, woke up soldiers by his imitating a rooster’s crow during the siege of Constantinople, passed away in the final assault, he was buried into the tomb behind the mosque, where Yavuz Er Sinan was also buried. In 1943, during construction works of Atatürk Boulevard, the tomb of Horoz Dede was moved next to Vakıf tombs.

The building is of the simplest type, a square room covered by a dome, the walls of stone. It was restored in 1960 with only moderate success. But although the mosque is of little interest architecturally, its historical background is rather fascinating. For one thing, this is probably the oldest mosque in the city, founded in 1455 by Yavuz Ersinan, standard-bearer in Fatih’s army during the final siege of Constantinople.

This gentleman was an ancestor of Evliya Çelebi; his family remained in possession of the mosque for centuries, living in a house just beside it. Evliya was born in this house in about 1611 and there, 20 years later, he had the dream which changed his life (and immeasurably enriched our knowledge of the life of old Stamboul).

The founder himself is buried in the little graveyard beside the mosque. Beside him is buried one of his comrades-in-arms, Horoz Dede, one of the fabulous folk-saints of Istanbul. Horoz Dede, or Grandfather Rooster, received his name during the siege of Constantinople, when he made his rounds each morning and woke the troops of Fatih’s army with his loud rooster call. Horoz Dede was killed in the final assault and after the city fell he was buried here, with Fatih himself among the mourners at his graveside. The saint’s grave is venerated to this day.

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KUMRULU MOSQUE

Atikali, Fatih - İstanbul - Turkey

GPS : 41°01'25.2"N 28°56'47.0"E / 41.023667, 28.946389



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It is situated in the District of Fatih, at the junction of Yavuz Selim Road and Mustakimzade Street. It was built for Mimar Sinan-i Atik who passed away in 1471. Even though it is called with the name of its benefactor, it got the name of “Kumrulu Mescid” (The Masjid with Doves) from the bird reliefs situated on the ornamental slab of the now dry fountain i located in the corner of the structure which depicts birds drink ng water out of a bowl.

Kumrulu Mescidi, takes its name from a fragment of Byzantine sculpture used in the adjoining çeşme, showing two turtledoves drinking from the Fountain of Life. This mosque is of interest principally because its founder and builder was Atik Sinan, the Chief Architect of Sultan Mehmet II and the designer of the original Mosque of the Conqueror. Atik Sinan’s tombstone is to be seen in the garden of the mosque, with an inscription which tells us that he was executed by Fatih in 1471.

The mosque was the work of a less well known Sinan, Atik Sinan (Sinaüddin Bin Yusuf), about whose life we know almost nothing. As the almost certainly apocryphal story goes, he was rewarded for his efforts by having his hands chopped off in 1471 when the sultan realized that the dome of Hagia Sophia still outstripped that of his new mosque. He was buried in the grounds of the Kumrulu Cami in nearby Karagümrük.

After the architect’s death in 1471, the same year the mosque was finished, his entire estate was donated to a mescit (small mosque), zaviye (sufi lodge) and a school that he had built in the Fatih district. His grave is in the section of the Sinan-ı Atik Mosque cemetery known as the Kumrulu Mescit. It’s a nice story but whether it’s true or not is for you to decide.

The structure, which was lastly repaired in the years 1963-64 has a plain architecture with an oblong design. Its mihrab is ornamented with encaustic tiles. it a building made of bricks and stones that has a roof covered with tiles. It has got a single minaret with a single balcony.

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MEHMET AĞA COMPLEX

Fatih - İstanbul - Turkey

GPS : 41°01'36.9"N 28°56'43.9"E / 41.026917, 28.945528



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Close to Manyasizade Street, the Mehmet Ağa Mosque was built by Architect Davut Ağa in 1584-1585 for Mehmet Ağa, the chief eunuch of black eunuchs brought from Ethiopia as slaves. In addition, it is shown as one of the work of Sinan the Architect in some references. He was a high rank officer in the palace responsible from harem and the commander and the palace halberdiers.

The construction which was a Mimar Sinan monument was built according to topography as we encountered in many works of the master. The construction which has alcoves opened to a rectangular planned courtyard and alternative wall masonry still serves as cultural centre.

In the square planned mosque, which has a central dome measuring 11 m in diameter and very beautiful tiles of İznik, 16th century tiles of Kütahya and 18th century tiles of the Palace of the Porphyrogenitus can still be seen today.

A square room covered by a dome, with a projecting apse for the mihrab and an entrance porch with five bays. But unlike most mosques of this simple type, the dome does not rest directly on the walls but on arches supported by pillars and columns engaged in the wall; instead of pendentives there are four semidomes in the diagonals. The mosque is about 380 m2.

Even though the name of the architect Davut Ağa is mentioned on the inscription panel, this mosque is listed among Sinan’s architectural works in Tuhfetü’l Mimaran. Since Sinan is credited as the architect, we assume that he greatly contributed to the design of the mosque. In general, it displays well-preserved architectural characteristics of the period of Sinan.

The tile rosettes on the pendentives in the interior are interesting and highly refined. Mehmet Ağa had been brought to the Palace as a slave from Ethiopia and had risen to the level of Chief Eunuch of the Harem.

Madrasa which was the part of a small complex was built by Hacı Mehmet who was one of the Darüssade aghas of Topkapı Palace in 1580. The madrasah, having 10 rooms and one big classroom, was later converted into a home for women. This madrasah, was given to the Society for the Protection of Children from the beginning of the Turkish Republic until 1986. It later was assigned to the Authors Association of Turkey in 1989.

As understood from the inscription on his tomb that is situated in the threshold of the mosque, he is known to have died in the 1590. There ara two morc mosques in Üsküdar, a madrasa, a school, and a water fountain on the Divan Road, in front of Hoca Rüstem Mosque built for Mehmed Aga. Architect of the mosque is Davut Ağa.

lts mihrab and minbar are made of marble and the tile panels crowning the lower windows and the tiles embracing thr mihrab from both sides ara thr ornamentation apparatus which ara 16th century Kütahya or Iznik tiles and or ara the tiles belonging to 18th century Tektur palace.

Dated to 1586, the bath built by the architect of the complex, Davut Ağa, can be seen near the mosque. The Bath House, which still continues to serve the public, is next to the mosque and the tomb, and open to public. Just to the south outside the precincts stands a handsome double bath, also a benefaction of Mehmet Ağa and presumably built by Davut Ağa.

The general plan is standard: a large square camekân, the dome of which is supported on squinches in the form of conches; a cruciform hararet with cubicles in the corners of the cross, but the lower arm of the cross has been cut off and turned into a small soğukluk which leads through the right-hand cubicle into the hararet; in the cubicles are very small private washrooms separated from each other by low marble partitions – a quite unique disposition. As far as one can judge from the outside, the women’s section seems to be a duplicate of the men’s.

The square planned tomb of Mehmet Ağa in the complex is relatively plain. The Mehmet Ağa Tomb is nearby, next to the mosque. Its square plan is original, yet it has lost some of its 16th century features. The Tomb can be viewed from the outside; it is closed to visitors at this time.

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HAFIZ AHMET PASHA MOSQUE

Fatih - Istanbul - Turkey

GPS : 41°01'18.5"N 28°56'51.3"E / 41.021806, 28.947583



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It is located between Fatih Avenue and Hafiz Pasha Street in Küçükkaraman in Fatih. It was constructed along with Madrasah, Daru’l Kurra and Public Fountain in 1595 upon the order of Hafiz Ahmet Pasha who was the Sadaret Governor and Grand Vizier of Sultan Murat IV.

Hafız Ahmed Pasha (1564 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria – 10 February 1632 in Istanbul), also known by epithet Müezzinzade ("muezzin's son"), was an Ottoman grand vizier. Born as son of a Pomak muezzin, he went to Istanbul at the age of 15 and was an employee in the sultan's palace for many years. From 1609 on, he became Governor of Damascus (Syria), Van (Turkey), Erzurum (Turkey), Baghdad (Iraq), and other Anatolian eyalets.

The kulliye consisting of the mosque, madrasah, Daru’l Kurra, public fountain and the fountain had been ruined during the 1918, Fatih fire and all the parts of it except 14 madrasahs, collapsed and some part of the walls could stand. The kulliye which was damaged heavily during the earthquake of 1648, fires of 1782 and 1918 was restord for many times.

There were baroque decorations on the balcony of the minaret and inside the dome of the mausoleum. In the kuliyat which stayed as ruined for a long time after the fire of 1918, the public fountain compietely burnt out, and the most parts of the mausoleum, mosque, darulkurra, and madrasah porticos burnt out.

The restoration of the kulliye was initiated by the chamber of foundations in 1976 and the madrasah was partly restored while the mosque was left unfinished. Beginning from 1990 with the support of Selam Foundation the mosque was restored with its minaret and opened to worshipping.

The mosque on the south of the kulliye has a transverse plan with a square place in the middle and sub-places smaller in size and having a square plam again on both sides. Marble covered mihrab niche which was restored is heptagon and its top was ended with muqarnas veil.

The minaret which has sixteen bodies over the original concrete square base was covered leaded cone. In the old pictures the elliptical transition of 18th century baroque style on the balcony and girlant decorations on the parapets are seen.

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HİDAYET MOSQUE

Eminönü, Fatih - İstanbul - Turkey

GPS : 41°01'00.0"N 28°58'25.6"E / 41.016666, 28.973786



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The Hidayet Mosque located on Yalı Köşkü Street in Istanbul’s Eminönü district, was built in 1813 (Islamic Calendar 1229) under Sultan Mahmud II. Originally of wood construction, it was reconstructed by the French architect Alexander Vallaury in 1887 under the direction of Sultan Abdülhamid II, as described by the inscription on the entrance to the courtyard.

Hidayet Mosque was built for Sultan Mahmud II (1808-1839) in 1813 from in wood. When it was entered from the South side, on the threshold gate is the inscription written with the lettering of Yesarizade Mustafa Izzet, When the wooden mosque built for Sultan Mahmud II had become ruined time, the mosque was rebuilt for Sultan Abdülhamid II (1876-1909) in 1887 in its today’s outlook.

The design of the two-story mosque can be described as Orientalist. There are two large pointed-arch windows on the Eastern and Western sides of the mosque and 21 windows in the dome. The mosque built over 500 m2 appears as a two-floor building it its original. Stairs lead to the second floor, where there is a prayer room and a domed sanctuary.

The mosque built over 500 m2 appears as a two-floor building it its original. The last section is the main praying space. Its design is close to square. There is the room fort he imam in the symmetry of the steps to upstairs. The main space is in square design. There are two large operable windows on itse ast and west walls and the mosque is illuminated with 21 windows situated on the dome.

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AKBIYIK MOSQUE

Sultanahmet, Fatih, İstanbul - Turkey

GPS : 41°00'12.1"N 28°58'45.5"E / 41.003372, 28.979294



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Akbiyik Mosque, one of the oldest mosques of Istanbul, is situated in Ahirkapi between the railroad and seashore and was built for one of the statesmen of Fatih Sultan Mehmet period, Akbiyik Muhyiddin Efendi, in 1464.

It was build by Fatih Dede an ulema that lived during Fatih Sultan Mehmet and it dates at the end of the 15th century. One of the oldest mosques of Istanbul, yet only the minaret is originally dated to the 15th century. Many repairs and restorations changed its original building. The mosque was located at the farthest point of the city that once was inside the Great Walls of Constantinopolis and was considered as the closest one to Kaaba.

It has a square design with a wooden roof and has an inner space of 192 square metres. The minaret with a single balcony still preserves its old body and balcony. Minbar was added subsequently.

The district was also called with the same name until 1934. It was included into the District of Sultanahmet in that year. As mentioned above, the tomb of its benefactor, Muhyiddin Efendi, is in the garden of the mosque.

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İSHAK PASHA MOSQUE

Cankurtaran, Fatih - İstanbul - Turkey

GPS : 41°00'23.2"N 28°58'53.8"E / 41.006444, 28.981611



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İshak Pasha Mosque Located in the street leading to Ahırkapı from Cebehane. İshak Pasha, a Vizier to both Sultan Mehmet II and Sultan Beyazıt II, had the mosque built in 1483. The viemity, the road and the mosque share the same name.

Ishak Pasa, one of the Grand Viziers of 15th century was originally a Greek who was educated in Enderun “the palace school” as a Muslim and had ascended the Grand Vizierate from treasurership during the reign of Sultan Murat II.

It is a small and very modest building with one dome covering an interior space only 75 square meters (807 square ft). The minbar of the mosque was built later for Mehmet Paşa who was one of the Viziers of Fatih Sultan Mehmet.

The mosque has undergone several restorations some of which took place in 1704, 1731, and 1811. The restoration works for the mosque, which measures 8.6 x 8.6 m, began shortly after the fire of 1918 and it was completed in 1951. The mosque and the modern bath were converted into a military warehouse after the fire of 1912.

Ishak Pasa was deposed just before the campaign over the Akkoyunlu and Mahmut Paşa ascendded the Grand Vizierate fort he second time. After the ascension of Sultan Bayazid II to throne, he was brought back to Grand vizierate one more time in 1481 and continued his post with success till he retired in 1492. He died in 1497.

Just across the street for the small mosque you find a large derelict building. It used to be the Ishak Paşa hamam or bath house that dates to the same period as the mosque, i.e. the late decades of the 15th century.

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