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Bebek Mosque

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Affiliation
  
Islam

Country
  
Turkey

Opened
  
1913

Number of minarets
  
1

Architect
  
Mimar Kemaleddin

Province
  
Istanbul

Completed
  
1913

District
  
Beşiktaş

Architectural type
  
Mosque

Bebek Mosque

Location
  
Cevdet Paşa Cad., Bebek

Dome(s)
  
1 main dome and 4 half domes

Address
  
Kandilli Mah., Kandilli Cad., 34684 Üsküdar/İstanbul, Turkey

Architectural styles
  
Ottoman architecture, Islamic architecture

Similar
  
Küçük Mecidiye Mosque, Molla Çelebi Mosque, Emirgan Mosque, Rum Mehmed Pasha M, Gül Mosque

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Bebek Mosque (Turkish: Bebek Cami), officially Hümayûn-u Âbad Mosque (Ottoman Turkish: Hümayûn-u Âbad Cami‎ for: Prosperous Imperial Mosque) is a 1913-built mosque located in Bebek neighborhood of Beşiktaş district in Istanbul, Turkey.

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Bebek Mosque was designed by Mimar Kemaleddin (1870–1927) in the architectural style of First national architectural movement, and built in Bebek on the place of a mosque, which was commissioned by Grand Vizier Nevşehirli Damat Ibrahim Pasha (1666–1730).

It is situated inside a courtyard surrounded by low concrete walls on Cevdet Paşa Cad. behind the Bebek Pier in Bebek Bay on Bosphorus. The mosque has a square plan, and is built in limestone ashlar. The main dome is supported by four half domes sitting on eight frames. It has six arched windows, two each in the front and back, and one each at sides, and 28 small arched windows in total above them. The mosque has a polygonal minaret on a high base adjecent to the western wall. The underside of the minaret balcony is decorated with three lines of muqarnas. Minaret's entrance is next to the narthex outside the mosque.

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References

Bebek Mosque Wikipedia