Namāzgāh

The Namāzgāh in Bursa , Turkey

The Namāzgāh in Prizren

Namāzgāh ( Persian نمازگاه, DMG Namāzgāh , 'prayer place') is the Persian and Ottoman-Turkish name for an Islamic open-air prayer place, which is usually used for the festive prayer on the Feast of the Breaking of the Fast and the Islamic Festival of Sacrifice , and thus corresponds to what is called Musallā in Arab countries and is called bezeichnetdgāh in India . Some Namāzgāhs were also used specifically by the military. In today's Turkey the term is mostly spelled Namazgah or Namazgâh, in Albania and Kosovo the spelling Namazgjahu , Namazxhaj / u and Namazgja is common, in Serbo-Croatian the building is called намазџа Namazdža .

Well-known Namāzgāhs are:

• the Namāzgāh of Bukhara , Uzbekistan , (early 12th century),
• the Emînüddin-Külliyesi-Namazgah in Mardin , Turkey (12th century),
• the Gelibolu-Azebler-Namazgâh in Çanakkale , Turkey (1407),
• the Umurbey-Namazgâh in Bursa , Turkey (1439),
• the Namazgâh of Malatya , Turkey (1465),
• the Atmeydanı Namazgâhı in Istanbul (1535–36),
• the Namazgjah of Prizren , Kosovo ,
• the Okmeydanı Namazgâhı in Istanbul (1625),
• the former Namazgjah of Elbasan , Albania ,
• former Namazgja of Tirana , Albania, on which the Namazgja Mosque is being built

literature

• Hüdavendigâr Akmaydalı: "Mihrablı ve Minberli Namazgâhlarımız" in Vakıflar Dergisi 23 (1994) 123-143. Digitized (with pictures of Turkish Namāzgāhs)
• J. Burton-Page: "Namāzgāh" in The Encyclopaedia of Islam. New Edition Vol. VII, p. 947.
• Nebi Bozkurt: "Namazgâh" in Türkiye Diyanet Vakfı İslâm Ansiklopedisi Vol. XXXII, pp. 357–358. Digitized
• Yavuz Tiryaki: "Namazgâh (Mimari)" in Türkiye Diyanet Vakfı İslâm Ansiklopedisi Vol. XXXII, pp. 359-360. Digitized