Muhyiddin Molla Fenari Mosque
The Muhyiddin Molla Fenari Mosque (also Çukurcuma Camii - Friday Dinner Mosque ) is located in the Beyoğlu district of Istanbul , in the Firuzağa Mahallesi district or in the Çukurcuma neighborhood .
During the conquest of Constantinople (1453) Sultan Mehmed II the conqueror is said to have initiated a Friday prayer in the valley . The Turkish words "çukur" for sink (actually pit) and "cuma" for Friday led to the name "Çukurcuma", which is still used today. The original building of the mosque was built between 1541 and 1547 by the architect Mimar Sinan on behalf of Şeyhülislam Fenerizade Muhyiddin Mehmet Efendi . The current building was built much later and has little architectural value.
The mosque is a square wood and stone building and is located on a 300 m² property. A wooden roof without a dome covers the house of prayer. It has a minaret with a balcony.
Opposite the mosque is the Ömer-Ağa fountain from 1720.
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- ↑ madebycat.com: Istanbul's Bohemian Quarter: Çukurcuma. Accessed January 30, 2020 (English).
- ↑ Freely, John ,: Galata, Pera, Beyoğlu: a biography . İstanbul 2016, ISBN 978-975-08-3589-6 .