Abdurrahman Şami Tomb
About the Person:
- Abdurrahman Şami is one of the companions who is reported to have been the standard-bearer of Khalid ibn Zayd Abu Ayyub al-Ansari, the companion and standard-bearer of the Prophet Muhammad.
- He was martyred during the Umayyad siege of Constantinople in 668-669. It is thought that the place where his grave is accepted to be was a “makam türbe” (one of the possible graves of the said person) and was determined after the conquest. In this respect, it has a representative nature like many of the Companions’ shrines in İstanbul.
About the Tomb:
Construction Year: 1774–1789
Ordered by: Abdülhamid I
Architect: Unknown
Prominent Features:
- The tomb is a single-storey building built with rubble stone and bricks and has a tile roof.
- On the street-facing facade, there is an entrance with an inscription and a large prayer window.
- Above the entrance, there is the following inscription written by the calligrapher Mehmed İzzet Efendi in 1302/1885: “This is the blessed grave of Abdurrahman eş-Şami, the standard-bearer of Halid who hosted in his house the Holy Prophet.”
- There is a coffin inside the tomb.
- The tevhidhane, located on the qibla side of the tomb, is a rectangular, single-storey, masonry building. The mihrab is designed in the form of a basket-handled arch.
- The tevhidhane is illuminated by four flat arched windows.
