Yağ Cami
Yağ Cami is a historical mosque located in the old town of Adana, Turkey. The structure was originally built as the Surp Hagop Armenian Apostolic Church at the second half of the 13th century during the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia.- Type: Mosque
- Denomination: Sunni
- Description: historical mosque in Adana, Turkey
- Also known as: “Yağ Camii”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Great Mosque and Saint Paul.
Great Mosque
Mosque
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Great Mosque of Adana, also known as the Ramazanoglu Mosque, is a 16th century mosque in Adana, Turkey. It forms part of a complex that includes a madrasah and a mausoleum. The complex is on Kızılay Street, next to Ramazanoğlu Hall. Great Mosque is situated 360 metres east of Yağ Cami.
Saint Paul
Church
Photo: Seyhan668, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Saint Paul Church, alternatively known as the Bebekli Kilise, is a Roman Catholic Church in Adana. The church was built by the Jesuit Order in 1870, and served the Armenian and European Catholic communities. Saint Paul is situated 450 metres north of Yağ Cami.
Stone Bridge
Photo: MUSTAFA TOR, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Taşköprü, historically known as Ponte Sarus, is a Roman bridge spanning the Seyhan River in Adana that was probably built in the first half of the second century AD. Stone Bridge is situated 760 metres northeast of Yağ Cami.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Adana and Tepebağ.
Adana
Photo: MUSTAFA TOR, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Adana is a city on the Cilician Plains of central Turkey, on the Seyhan River about 50 km from the Mediterranean coast. It's industrial and mostly modern but with several places of interest in its historic centre.
Tepebağ
Suburb
Photo: Seyhan668, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tepebağ is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Seyhan, Adana Province, Turkey. Its population is 903. It is a historical neighborhood in the old town of Adana.
Seyhan
Town
Photo: hakan kozan, CC BY 3.0.
Seyhan is a district-municipality in the Adana Province of Turkey. Its area is 444 km2, and its population is 795,012. It forms the core of the Adana urban area.
Yağ Cami
- Categories: building, place of worship, and religion
- Location: Adana Province, Turkey, Eastern Mediterranean Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
36.98365° or 36° 59′ 1″ northLongitude
35.32714° or 35° 19′ 38″ eastOpen location code
8G8QX8MG+FVOpenStreetMap ID
way 691641715OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipOpenStreetMap feature
building=mosqueOpenStreetMap attribute
denomination=sunniWikidata ID
Q3906407
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Mari—“Yağ Cami” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مسجد ياغ”
- German: “Alte Moschee von Adana”
- Kinyarwanda: “Umusigiti wa Yağ”
- Persian: “مسجد روغن”
- Persian: “مسجد یاغ”
- Turkish: “Adana Eski Cami”
- Turkish: “Cami-i Atik”
- Turkish: “Yağ Camii”
- Urdu: “یاغ مسجد”
- Uzbek: “Yağ masjidi”
- Western Mari: “Яг мечеть”
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