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Ortaköy Mosque
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Key facts
- Affiliation
- Islam
- Location
- Istanbul , Turkey
- Architects
- Garabet Balyan , Nigoğayos Balyan
- Type
- Mosque
- Style
- Ottoman (19th-century eclectic)
- Completed
- 1854 or 1856
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Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Ortaköy
- Religion
- Islam
- Country
- Turkey
- Located in
- Istanbul
- Image
- Istanbul asv2020-02 img61 Ortaköy Mosque.jpg
- Has use
- mosque
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- located in/on physical feature
- Marmara Region
- Commons category
- Ortaköy Mosque
- architect
- Garabet Amira Balyan
- commissioned by
- Abdülmecid I
- architectural style
- Ottoman architecture
- Commons gallery
- Büyük Mecidiye Camii
- inception
- 1856-00-00
- native label
- Büyük Mecidiye Camii
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Encyclopedic overview
Ortaköy Mosque (Turkish: Ortaköy Camii), formally the Büyük Mecidiye Camii (Turkish: Büyük Mecidiye Camii, lit. 'Great Mosque of Sultan Abdulmejid') in Beşiktaş, Istanbul, Turkey, is a mosque situated at the waterside of the Ortaköy pier square, one of the most popular locations on the Bosphorus. It was commissioned by the Ottoman sultan Abdülmecid I, and its construction was completed around 1854 or 1856.
This structure is symbolic of the district of Ortaköy and is often photographed, as it offers a distinctive view of the Bosphorus Strait of Istanbul and the Bosphorus Bridge.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ortaköy Mosque” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.