Burhaniye Mosque
Changes After Its Construction:
- Restoration work began in 2017, during which time the mosque was closed to worship.The mosque was reopened to worship in November 2020.
Prominent Features:
- It is also known as the “II. Abdulhamid Mosque”.
- Burhaniye Village, where the mosque is located, was founded by the settlement of immigrants here after the 1876 Ottoman-Russian War (it is called the ’93 War because it happened in 1293 in the Rumi calendar, and similarly, those who came after the war are called the 93 War Immigrants).
- Abdulhamid II had this mosque built in the village and named it after his most beloved son, Burhaneddin Efendi. Thus, the village took the name Burhaniye.
- Prince (Şehzade) Burhaneddin, for whom a mosque was built, died in New York on June15, 1949, and buried in the graveyard of the Sultan Selim Mosque in Damascus.
- It was built with a single minaret and a single balcony.
- There is a well with a marble bracelet dated 1908 in its courtyard.
- The most striking feature of the mosque is the arched vault structure created at ground level in order not to divide the bazaar.
- There are 6 shops on both sides of the vault at this level.
