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Gül Mosque

Gül Mosque is a former Byzantine church in , , converted into a by the Ottomans. It is in Vakıf Mektebi Sokak in the district of , , in the neighbourhood of Ayakapı.
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  • Type: Mosque
  • Denomination: Sunni
  • Description: mosque in İstanbul, Turkey
  • Also known as: “Gül Camii”
  • Wheelchair access: no

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Golden Horn and İhramcı Mehmed Sadık Efendi Fountain.

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The is the district of surrounding the banks of the body of water of the same name, which is a bay of the Bosphorus along its western, European coast.

Historic building
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is a historic building.

Mosque
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Fener and Unkapanı.

Quarter
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, also spelled Phanar, is a quarter midway up the in the district of in , . The Turkish name is derived from the Greek word "phanarion", meaning lantern, streetlight or lamppost; the neighborhood was so called because of a column topped with a lantern which stood here in the Byzantine period and was used as a street light or lighthouse.

Quarter
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is a quarter.

Quarter
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is part of the district of in , and lies inside what was once the old walled city of Constantinople. It lies roughly northwest of the eastern section of the Aqueduct of Valens, and is rich in monuments, both Byzantine and Ottoman.

Gül Mosque

Latitude
41.02677° or 41° 1′ 36″ north
Longitude
28.95638° or 28° 57′ 23″ east
Open location code
8GHC2XG4+PH
Open­Street­Map ID
way 330645373
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­place_of_worship
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­mosque
Open­Street­Map attribute
denomination=­sunni
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­no
Wiki­data ID
Q2334536
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Gül Mosque” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “جامع غول”
  • Arabic: “مسجد جول”
  • Azerbaijani: “Gül məscidi”
  • Azerbaijani: “Müqəddəs Feodosi kilsəsi”
  • Chinese: “居尔清真寺”
  • Chinese: “玫瑰清真寺”
  • Dutch: “Gül Mosque”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جامع جول”
  • French: “mosquée Gül”
  • French: “Mosquée Gül”
  • Georgian: “ვარდის მეჩეთი”
  • German: “Gül-Moschee”
  • Greek: “Γκιουλ Τζαμί”
  • Greek: “Ναός της Αγίας Θεοδοσίας”
  • Greek: “Τέμενος Γκιουλ”
  • Indonesian: “Masjid Gül”
  • Italian: “moschea Gül”
  • Italian: “Moschea Gül”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Umusigiti wa Gül”
  • Macedonian: “Џамија Ѓул”
  • Persian: “مسجد گل”
  • Russian: “Гюль Мечеть”
  • Russian: “Церковь Святой Феодосии”
  • Swedish: “Gül-moskén”
  • Turkish: “Ayia Teodosia”
  • Turkish: “Ayia Theodosia Kilisesi”
  • Turkish: “Azize Teodosya”
  • Turkish: “Gül Cami”
  • Turkish: “Gül Camii”
  • Ukrainian: “Гюль мечеть”
  • Ukrainian: “Гюль”
  • Urdu: “گل مسجد”
  • Uzbek: “Gül masjidi”
  • Western Mari: “Гӱль мечеть”
  • Western Panjabi: “گل 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 “Gül Mosque”. Photo: Sadrettin, CC BY-SA 4.0.