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Sultan Ahmed Mosque in Istanbul.. The urban landscape of Istanbul is shaped by many communities. The most populous major religion is Islam.The first mosque in Istanbul was built in Kadıköy (ancient Chalcedon) on the Asian side of the city, which was conquered by the Ottoman Turks in 1353, a full century before the conquest of Constantinople across the Bosphorus, on the European side.
In 1923, after the Turkish War of Independence, Ankara replaced the city as the capital of the newly formed Republic of Turkey. Istanbul was the 2010 European Capital of Culture. The city has surpassed London and Dubai to become the most visited city in the world, with more than 20 million foreign visitors in 2023. [14]
Islam is the most practiced religion in Turkey. Most Turkish Sunni Muslims belong to the Hanafi school of jurisprudence. The established presence of Islam in the region that now constitutes modern Turkey dates back to the later half of the 11th century, when the Seljuks started expanding into eastern Anatolia. [2]
Baklava, probably developed in the imperial kitchens of the Topkapı Palace in Istanbul Republic Day celebrations on the Bosporus in Istanbul Orhan Pamuk, Turkish novelist, screenwriter, academic and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. Art in Istanbul Istanbul in art / Paintings of Istanbul; Public art in Istanbul Akdeniz; The Feeler
Interior view of the Yıldız Hamidiye Mosque in Istanbul. A modern mosque in Ankara, Turkey Şahkulu Sultan Dergahı is an Alevi cemevi. Islam is the religion with the largest community of followers in the country, where most of the population is Muslim, [78] of whom around 90% belong to the Sunni branch of Islam, predominantly following the ...
Jewish Life in Twenty-First-Century Turkey: The Other Side of Tolerance. New Anthropologies of Europe. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-35690-1. Çelik, Zeynep (1993). The Remaking of Istanbul: Portrait of an Ottoman City in the Nineteenth Century. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
The largest Christian population in Turkey is located in Istanbul, which has a large community of Armenians and Greeks. Istanbul is also where the Patriarchate of Greek Orthodox Christianity is located. Antioch, located in Turkey's Hatay province, is the original seat of the namesake Antiochian Orthodox Church, but is now the titular see. The ...
Religion in Istanbul; I. 2024 Istanbul church shooting; T. Telli Baba This page was last edited on 18 October 2020, at 07:20 (UTC). Text is available under the ...