Istanbul and its district. Istanbul. Yuskyudar. Known mosques in Turkey, religious holidays in Turkey
Eminent mosques in Turkey
In Yuskyudara (L skiidar) (the distorted title of the Byzantian small town of Skutari) you find a large quantity of proofs of its religious conservatism. In particular it is perceptible on clothes which is carried here by local inhabitants of Turkey. The area it is long was the centre of different magic Muslim sects, and soon there come many people from Islamic areas Anatoli. Nevertheless, here strangers feel cosier, than, for example, in the same limited district of Istanbul, Fatikh. To get in Yuskyudar, sit down on the ferry in Eminyonya or Beshiktash or on the bus or долмуш No. 12 or No. 14 of Kadikyoya. Yuskyudar's Osnovnaya Square on the embankment represents big road service station. From located here, on Pasha Street the Estuary Kaddesi Iskele Dzhamii, buses go on the coast of Bosporus to Anadola Kavayi and on the Black Sea resorts the Quince and to Syl. In modern Yuskyudar and his suburbs there are some delightful imperial mosques. In the small town it is also possible to find branches of the central bank of Turkey. But it is better known as the shopping centre known for street racks with the freshest products, in particular for vegetables and fish, and family shops with inconceivable variety of anatoliysky cheeses. Average cost of the permit to Turkey is very low, and you presume for yourselves pleasant purchases. In a flea market on Byuyyuk Street to Impudent persons Sokak sell old furniture and carpets. In the same place there are little shops with completely solid prices for jeweller scenery and clothes. On the embankment in Saladzhaka (Salacak) there is a quantity solid cafe and bars with cool views of Istanbul and a palace of Topkapy.
Yuskyudar's most perceptible mosque is to Iskel (Iskele), or Mikhrimakh Dzhamy (Mihrimah Camii) which is directly opposite to the ferry mooring on Iskel Meydana. It costs on the highest platform with the bolshushchy hidden entrance where, fixedly watching everything that occurs on the area, and povsevremenno complaining of changeable times, посиживают old men in wattled caps. Planned by Mimar Sinan and constructed in 1547-1548, it is the unique mosque in Turkey of times of the Ottoman Empire with 3 (instead of with 2 or 4) domes that has been caused by structure construction in an abrupt slope of a hillock. Through a main square opposite to Iskel Dzhamy is Eni Waleed Dzhamy (Yeni Valide Camii). Perfectly, if you appear nearby to these 2 mosques during an appeal to a prayer when two муэдзина call the friend to the friend and answer with a sharp refrain, having something in common through the area filled with buses under them. Eni Waleed Dzhamy has been constructed between 1708 and 1710. sultan Ahmed III in memory about own mother. About it the greenish tomb similar on a bird's section Waleed Sultan says, whose cellular roof in fact has been created for this purpose to contain under it birds and to allow a rain to irrigate internal (now ugly overgrown) a garden. In a yard of a tomb is nice шадирван (a fountain for ablution) with skilfully topped lattice which sketch has something in common with a stone carving of a roof.
Religious holidays in Turkey and a relic
One of Yuskyudar's finest mosques — is Chinili Dzhamy (Qinili Cami). or the Tile mosque, belongs to 1640. To reach it on foot, it is necessary to go according to Hakimiyet-i Milliye Kaddesi (Hakimiyet-I Milliye Caddesi), and then to curtail to the left on Chavushdera Kaddesi (Qavusdere Caddesi). Behind the market of new vegetables and fruit rise up on the same street, and on the right you will see a mosque. Its tiles more blue and tortoise colour, and михраб it is trimmed by the most rare tile of a greenish colour. On the same street, it is sensitive below a mosque, is Repaired the Impudent person. we are (Cjnili Hamami) (the man's office is open with 8. 00-22. 00, female — 8. 00-20. 00; an entrance — 12YTL) in what the massage marble table of the central part and other sites of an ancient marble covering has remained. It surprisingly spotless to impudent persons, pride of employees working in it. Nearby to Chitali Dzhamy there is Atyk Waleed Kyulliyesi (Atik Valide Kiilliyesi). Return back according to Chavushdera Kaddesi (Cavusdere Caddesi), turn to the left on Repaired to Impudent persons Sokak (CJnili Hamami Sokak), and on the right you will see a mosque. Constructed by Mimar Sinan for Hyp to Bann, Selim's II spouses and Murat's III mother, the mosque belongs to 1583. Its yard which was under construction with calculation that it will be the finest in Istanbul, already few years is closed on restoration. Therefore it is possible to come into a mosque only from a lateral entrance, and religious holidays in Turkey in it are not noted. The most fascinating place in it are remarkably painted passes under wood galleries повдоль the 3rd walls of the structure, also trimmed with izniksky tiles михраб.
Minibuses from Yuskyudar, Iskel Meydana's main square, go to Yumraniye (Umraniye) by Byuyyuk Dzhamlika (Biiyiik Qamlica), the highest hillock of the Asian party of Istanbul. Descend at Kysykla Dzhamiya, pass up on Kysykly-Byuyyuk Dzhamlika Kaddesi, turn to the right before Biiyiik Qamlica Et Lokantasi — and you will get to one of parks of Turkey. Walk will take from you less than fifteen minutes, and efforts will be rewarded pleasant freshness and fine views of Bosporus and European saved up Istanbul, also with taste the arranged cafe on a hillock top (it is opened 9. 00-00. 00).
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