Eski Imaret Mosque
| Eski Imaret Mosque Eski Imaret Câmîi | ||
|---|---|---|
Year consecrated Short after 1453 | | |
| Location | ||
| Location | Istanbul, Turkey | |
  Location in the Fatih district of Istanbul | ||
| Geographic coordinates | 41°1′18″N 28°57′18″E / 41.02167°N 28.95500°E | |
| Architecture | ||
| Type | church with cross-in-square plan | |
| Style | Middle Byzantine - Comnenian | |
| Completed | Short before 1087 | |
| Materials | brick, stone | |
The Eski Imaret Mosque (
Location
The building lies in Istanbul, in the district of Fatih, in the neighbourhood of Zeyrek, one of the poorest areas inside the old walled city. It is less than one kilometre northwest of the even more impressive Zeyrek Mosque.
Identification
It was the Patriarch
History
Some time before 1087,
On April 12, 1204, during the
Immediately after the Ottoman
The complex has been ravaged by fire several times, and the last traces of the monastery disappeared about a century ago.
Restoration
It has been restored twice: once in the 1970s by Architect Fikret Çuhadaroglu; and again during an unauthorized restoration in the 1990s.[10]
Its undulating roofline, obscured by a single flat roof in Ottoman times, was rebuilt in the 1970 restoration.[11]
In 2015, restoration works began on the Eski Imaret Mosque with an expected opening date of 2019, however this was later halted for unknown reason.[12]
As of 2024, the Eski Imaret Mosque is still under restoration.[13]
Architecture
The building lies on a slope which overlooks the Golden Horn, and rests on a platform which is the ceiling of a cistern. It is hemmed in all sides, making inspection of the exterior difficult. Its masonry consists of brick and stone, and uses the recessed brick technique; it is the oldest extant building of Constantinople in which this technique - which is typical of the Middle Byzantine architecture - can be observed, .[14] In this technique, alternate courses of bricks are mounted behind the line of the wall in a mortar bed. The thickness of the mortar layers is roughly three times greater than that of the brick layers. The brick tiles on the roof are unique among the churches and mosques of Istanbul, which are otherwise covered with lead.[15]
The plan belongs to the
A unique feature of this building is the U-shaped gallery which runs over the narthex and the two western bays of the quincunx. The gallery has windows opening towards both the naos and the crossarm. It is possible that the gallery was built for the private use of the Empress-Mother.[5]
As in many of the surviving Byzantine churches of Istanbul, the four columns which supported the crossing were replaced by piers, and the colonnades at either ends of the crossarms were filled in.[5] The piers divide the nave into three aisles. The side aisles lead into small clover-leaf-shaped chapels to the east, connected to the sanctuary and ended to the east, like the sanctuary, with an apse. These chapels are the prothesis and diaconicon. The Ottomans resurfaced the apses and added a minaret, since lost.
The
The exterior has occasional decorative motifs, like
Gallery
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References
- ^ Asutay-Effenberger & Effenberger (2008), p. 13
- ^ Mango, Cyril (1998). "Where at Constantinople was the Monastery of Christos Pantepoptes?". Δελτίον τῆς. Xριστιανικῆς Ἀρχαιολογικῆς Ἑταιρείας. 20: 87–88.
- ^ Asutay-Effenberger & Effenberger (2008), pp. 13–14
- ^ Asutay-Effenberger & Effenberger (2008), pp. 13–40
- ^ a b c d e Mathews (1976), p. 59
- ^ a b Van Millingen (1912), p. 214
- ^ Jacobi (2001), p. 287
- Sufi or dervishbrotherhood.
- ^ Müller-Wiener (1977), Sub Voce.
- ^ "Eski Imaret Mosque". www.archnet.org/. Retrieved 2022-01-11.
- ^ "Eski Imaret Mosque". www.archnet.org/. Retrieved 2022-01-11.
- ^ "Eski Imaret Mosque". www.haberturk.com. Retrieved 2022-12-19.
- ^ "Eski Imaret Mosque". www.haberturk.com. Retrieved 2022-12-19.
- ^ Krautheimer (1986), p. 400
- ^ "The Monastery of Christ Pantepoptes". The Byzantine Legacy. Retrieved 2022-07-07.
- ^ Krautheimer (1986), p. 407
Sources
- Van Millingen, Alexander (1912). Byzantine Churches in Constantinople. London: MacMillan & Co.
- Mathews, Thomas F. (1976). The Byzantine Churches of Istanbul: A Photographic Survey. University Park: ISBN 0-271-01210-2.
- OCLC 3849706.
- ISBN 978-3-8030-1022-3.
- ISBN 88-06-59261-0.
- Jacobi, David (2001). "The urban evolution of Latin Constantinople". In Necipoğlu, Nevra (ed.). Byzantine Constantinople: Monuments, Topography and everyday Life. Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill. ISBN 90-04-11625-7.
- Asutay-Effenberger, Neslihan; Effenberger, Arne (2008). "Eski İmaret Camii, Bonoszisterne und Konstantinsmauer". Jahrbuch der österreichischen Byzantinistik (in German). 58: 13–44. ISBN 978-3-7001-6132-5.
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