Hamidiye Mosque

The Hamidiye Mosque
( İstanbul on September 18, 2007)

The Hamidiye Mosque ( Turkish: Yıldız Hamidiye Camisi or Yıldız Hamidiye Camii ) is located in the Beşiktaş district of Istanbul . On Marjeh Square in the Syrian capital Damascus there is a replica of the mosque on the crown of the telegraph memorial .

Building history

Sultan Abdülhamid II had the mosque built in 1885 according to the designs of the Armenian architect Sarkis Balyan . It combines neo-Gothic and classic Ottoman architectural elements, was built on a rectangular floor plan and has a minaret. It is located in the immediate vicinity of the Yıldız Palace complex.

After a four-year renovation for 27 million Turkish Lira , the Hamidiye Mosque reopened on August 4, 2017.

background

Until the Hamidiye Mosque was built, Sultan Abdülhamid II held the Friday prayers in various mosques in Istanbul. Over time, the Sultan pooled all power and concentrated it in the Yıldız Palace. Previously, he resided in the Dolmabahçe Palace , which was too insecure for him, so that he feared dethronement. The Sultan was reluctant to leave his new palace and therefore had the Hamidiye mosque built so that he no longer had to leave the palace grounds.

attack

In 1905 Sultan Abdülhamid II survived an attack . On July 21, 1905, a Belgian assassin on behalf of the Armenian Daschnakzutjun had put dynamite in his car while the sultan was saying his Friday prayers in the mosque. A delay of a few minutes saved the sultan's life. 26 members of the sultan's entourage died and 58 were injured.

Web links

Commons : Hamidiye Mosque - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Yıldız Camii. In: http://www.ibb.gov.tr/sites/ks/tr-tr/Pages/Ana-Sayfa.aspx . Istanbul City Council, p. 1 , accessed on March 13, 2009 (Turkish).
^ Edward Alexander A Crime of Vengeance: An Armenian Struggle for Justice , New York 1991, p. 97
^ Richard G. Hovannisian, The Armenian Question in the Ottoman Empire , in East European Quarterly 6 , 1972, p. 15
^ Salahi R. Sonyel The Ottoman Armenians: Victims of Great Power Diplomacy , London 1987, p. 261

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[1] Yıldız Camii. In: http://www.ibb.gov.tr/sites/ks/tr-tr/Pages/Ana-Sayfa.aspx . Istanbul City Council, p. 1 , accessed on March 13, 2009 (Turkish).

[2] Edward Alexander A Crime of Vengeance: An Armenian Struggle for Justice , New York 1991, p. 97

[3] Richard G. Hovannisian, The Armenian Question in the Ottoman Empire , in East European Quarterly 6 , 1972, p. 15

[4] Salahi R. Sonyel The Ottoman Armenians: Victims of Great Power Diplomacy , London 1987, p. 261