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Dolmabahçe Mosque

The Dolmabahçe Mosque is a baroque waterside in in the district of , , close to the . It was commissioned by Queen Mother Bezmialem Valide Sultan and designed by the Turkish Armenian architect, Garabet Balyan in 1855.
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  • Type: Mosque
  • Denomination: Sunni
  • Description: mosque in İstanbul, Turkey
  • Also known as: “Bezmialem Cami”, “Dolmabahçe Camii”, and “Dolmabahce Mosque”
  • Historically known as: “Dolma Bagtche Mosque”
  • Address: İstanbul

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Beşiktaş Stadium and Dolmabahçe Palace.

Stadium
Photo: Cooty16, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Beşiktaş Stadyumu is an all-seater, multi-purpose in the district of , . It is the home ground of Beşiktaş. The stadium was built on the site of Beşiktaş's former home, BJK İnönü Stadium. is situated 300 metres north of Dolmabahçe Mosque.

Park
Photo: Robert.raderschatt, Public domain.
is a 19th-century imperial palace located in , , along the shore of the , which served as the main administrative center of the Ottoman Empire from 1856 to 1887 and from 1909 to 1922. is situated 450 metres northeast of Dolmabahçe Mosque.

Clock
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is a clock tower situated outside in , . Its construction was ordered by Ottoman sultan Abdülhamid II and designed by the court architect Sarkis Balyan between 1890 and 1895. is situated 140 metres northeast of Dolmabahçe Mosque.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kabataş and Vişnezade.

Quarter
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is a busy waterside area of municipality on the shore of the Bosphorus between and in , . It is a major transport interchange served by the T1 tram line to Bağcılar and the funicular railway to .

Suburb
is a neighborhood in the municipality and district of , , . Its population is 7,959 as of 2023. Vişne translates to "" from Turkish and the neighborhood is named after İzzeti Mehmet Efendi, an Ottoman statesman nicknamed who was known to cultivate sour cherry in the place of this neighborhood.

Photo: Karsten Wentink, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a very large city of fantastic history, culture and beauty. Called Byzantium in ancient times, the city's name was changed to Constantinople in 324 CE when it was rebuilt by the first Christian Roman Emperor, Constantine.

Dolmabahçe Mosque

Latitude
41.03676° or 41° 2′ 12″ north
Longitude
28.99526° or 28° 59′ 43″ east
Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)
Inception
March 23rd, 1855
Height
16 metres (52 feet)
Open location code
8GHC2XPW+P4
Open­Street­Map ID
way 498861874
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­place_of_worship
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­mosque
Open­Street­Map attribute
denomination=­sunni
Geo­Names ID
12096983
Wiki­data ID
Q2086068
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Dolmabahçe Mosque” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “Dolmabahçe Camii”
  • Arabic: “جامع طولمة باغجة”
  • Armenian: “Դոլմաբահչե մզկիթ”
  • Bashkir: “Тулмабаҡса (мәсет)”
  • Bashkir: “Тулмабаҡса”
  • Bengali: “দোলমাবাহজে মসজিদ”
  • Bulgarian: “Долмабахче джамия”
  • Chinese: “多尔玛巴切清真寺”
  • Chinese: “多爾瑪巴切清真寺”
  • Dutch: “Dolmabahçe Mosque”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جامع دولمه باهجه”
  • French: “Mosquée de Dolmabahçe”
  • French: “mosquée Dolmabahçe”
  • Greek: “Ντολμά Μπαχτσέ Τζαμί”
  • Greek: “Ντολμαμπαχτσέ Τζαμί”
  • Indonesian: “Masjid Dolmabahçe”
  • Italian: “moschea di Dolmabahçe”
  • Italian: “Moschea di Dolmabahçe”
  • Japanese: “ドルマバフチェ・モスク”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Umusigiti wa Dolmabahçe”
  • Korean: “발리데 술탄 모스크”
  • Macedonian: “Џамија Долмабахче”
  • Malay: “Masjid Dolmabahçe”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Dolmabahçemoskeen”
  • Norwegian: “Dolmabahçemoskeen”
  • Persian: “مسجد دولماباغچه”
  • Polish: “Meczet Dolmabahçe”
  • Polish: “Meczet Dolmbahcze”
  • Romanian: “Moscheea Dolmabahçe”
  • Russian: “Долмабахче Мечеть”
  • Russian: “Долмабахче”
  • Spanish: “Mezquita de Dolmabahçe”
  • Turkish: “Bezmialem Valide Sultan Camii”
  • Turkish: “Dolmabahçe Cami”
  • Turkish: “Dolmabahçe Camii”
  • Turkish: “Dolmabahçe Camisi”
  • Udmurt: “Долмабахче мечеть”
  • Ukrainian: “Долмабахче”
  • Ukrainian: “Мечеть Долмабахче”
  • Urdu: “دولماباغچہ مسجد”
  • Uzbek: “Dolmabahçe masjidi”
  • Western Armenian: “Տոլմապահչէ Մզկիթ”
  • Western Mari: “Долмабахче мечеть”
  • Western Panjabi: “دولماباشے مسیت”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Dolmabahçe Mosque”. Photo: ArildV, CC BY-SA 3.0.