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The New Mosque (Turkish: Yeni Cami, pronounced [jeni dʒami], originally named the Valide Sultan Mosque, Turkish: Valide Sultan Camii) and later New Valide Sultan Mosque (Turkish: Yeni Valide Sultan Camii) after its partial reconstruction and completion between 1660 and 1665, is an Ottoman imperial mosque located in the Eminönü quarter of Istanbul, Turkey.
According to local legends, the mosque was constructed upon a site where once a church dedicated to St George had existed. [3] This was confirmed in archaeological excavations in 2004-2010 under Gordana Filipovska Lazarovska which unearthed foundations of four basilicas and an older mosque on the foundations the Yeni Mosque was built.
Public fountain in Yeni Valide Mosque Courtyard Interior Patterns and Arabic text of Yeni Valide Mosque. The mosque has an octagonal base with a central dome. Its plan is a variant of that of the Rüstem Pasha Mosque, but variations such as its corner domes give it a more classical character than the Rüstem Pasha Mosque. It is also one of the ...
The Yeni Mosque (Greek: Γενί Τζαμί, from Turkish: Yeni Camii, "New Mosque") is an Ottoman mosque in the Greek town of Komotini dating back to 1585. It is the only surviving structure in Greece to feature Iznik tiles from the 1580s, the zenith of the Iznik potters' art.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - As Hindu devotees prepare to inaugurate a grand temple to one of their holiest deities, India's minority Muslims plan to begin building a new mosque in the same city later ...
Yeni Mosque (from Turkish: Yeni Cami) or New Mosque can refer to: . New Mosque, Istanbul, Turkey; New Mosque, Bitola, North Macedonia; New Mosque, Malatya, Turkey; Djamaa el Djedid ('New Mosque') in Algiers, Algeria
The Yeni Mosque (Greek: Γενί Τζαμί, from Turkish: Yeni Cami, "New Mosque") is a historical mosque in Thessaloniki, Greece.It was built by Italian architect Vitaliano Poselli in 1902 for the city's Dönmeh community, crypto-Jewish converts to Islam.
Imam Abdulhakim Mohammed walks over a chalk drawing that was created for a celebration of the Islamic holiday, Eid al-Adha, at what will soon be the new Islamic Center on Montana Avenue in Tacoma ...