Şeyh Nevruz Mosque
- Changes after its construction
- With the closure of the dervish lodges and zawiyas in 1925, many parts of the mosque were demolished and left in ruins.
- It was revived as a mosque by the Cizmeci Family in 1985.
- It was restored by Üsküdar Municipality in 2018.
- Prominent Features
- The structure, also known as the Nevruz Lodge, was built as a dervish lodge affiliated with the Qadiri order. The lodge included a semahane, soup kitchen, guesthouse, sheikh and dervish rooms, and a shrine.
- It is claimed that Mehmet Akif Ersoy wrote a part of the Turkish National Anthem here.
- The mosque has a wooden mihrab painted with white oil paint. Its semicircular niche is decorated with a plaque with a gilded tughra-shaped Basmalah and the 149th verse of the Surah Baqara*.
- The mosque is also known as the mosque where the character Ömer Baba works as a muezzin in the famous Turkish TV series Kurtlar Vadisi.
- It has a single balcony and is made of wood; the mosque’s mihrab and wooden details are elegant examples of Ottoman decorative art.
*Wherever you are ˹O Prophet˺, turn your face towards the Sacred Mosque. This is certainly the truth from your Lord. And Allah is never unaware of what you ˹all˺ do.
