Great Chan Mosque
The Great Khan mosque ( Crimean Buyuk Han Cami , Ukrainian Велика Палацова мечеть Welyka Palazowa metschet , German , Grand Palace Mosque ' ) is a 1532 of Chan I. Sahib Giraj in Ottoman architectural style mosque built in the Ukrainian city of Bakhchisaray within the Autonomous Republic of Crimea ; it is part of the Chan Palace , which was the seat of the Crimean Chanate . The mosque was named after Sahib I. Giraj until the 17th century.
The mosque is similar to the Colorful Mosque in Tetovo ( North Macedonia ) or the Suleyman Pasha Mosque in the Albanian capital Tirana . The building consists of a three-aisled square prayer hall with a hipped roof , a narthex and arcades facing east and west. The entrance is in the north. Two octagonal minarets rise 28 meters symmetrically in the middle of the portico . They each have an elaborately decorated scissors , a pencil tip and roof decorations . At the northeast corner of the mosque there is a square washing area with a dome. Inside there is a balcony on three of the four walls, part of which is separated for the Chan.
The mosque was damaged in a fire in 1736, but was restored under Chan Selamet Giraj. To the east, a medrese built in 1750 under Arslan Giraj was probably connected. Some researchers also suspect that the mosque originally had a domed roof with several domes of different shapes.
Web links
- Tatar Khans' Palace. ArchNet, accessed February 21, 2011 .
Coordinates: 44 ° 44 ′ 55.2 ″ N , 33 ° 52 ′ 55.1 ″ E