Bezm-i Alem Valide Sultan Mosque

Bezm-i Alem Valide Sultan Mosque

Year Built
1845
Commissioned By
Bezm-i Âlem Valide Sultan (Second wife of Sultan Mahmud II and mother of Sultan Abdulmecid)
Architect
Unknown
Location
Fatih
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Changes After Construction

  1. It was repaired in 1875.

  2. It was restored by the Foundations Administration in 2007.

Featured Highlights

  • Also known as Valide Mosque and Gureba Hospital Mosque.

  • It is a brick, rectangular structure with a wooden roof. The women's gallery, accessed by a wooden staircase, consists of three rooms, only one room exists today.

  • In the middle of the wooden ceiling there is a gilded centre in the shape of a leaf and gilded plant motifs scattered around.

  • Its minbar has a pointed cone and is made of wood like the pulpit.

  • The mihrab is grooved and has baroque style folds on its upper part.

  • The mosque was built next to the hospital and has a gathering place where patients can join the congregation.

  • It was designed for hospital staff and patients to pray.

  • The single-balcony stone minaret, which is entered from the inside, is located on the right side of the mosque.

  • A fountain of the same date is also located next to the mosque.

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