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Kırkkaşık Bedesten is a bedesten
A bedesten (variants: bezistan, bezisten, bedestan) is a type of covered market or market hall which was historically found in the cities of the Ottoman Empire. It was typically the central building of the commercial district of an Ottoman town or ...
(covered market) in Tarsus, Turkey
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. There are figures of lotus carved on the pediment of the bedesten. In the Medieval Age, the people named the bedesten ''Kırkkaşık'' (forty spoons) because they mistook the lotuses for spoons.
Geography
The bedesten is in Tarsus, a district center inMersin Province
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. It is situated at in Camii Nur neighbourhood of Tarsus, adjacent to Tarsus Grand Mosque
History
In Medieval Turkish tradition,Vakıf
A waqf ( ar, وَقْف; ), also known as hubous () or ''mortmain'' property is an inalienable charitable endowment under Islamic law. It typically involves donating a building, plot of land or other assets for Muslim religious or charitable ...
was a source of revenue, endowed by the commissioners of the mosques and other charitable institutions for the exploitation and the maintenance of these institutions. Kırkkaşık Bedesten was an vakıf and hospice commissioned by İbrahim Bey of Ramazanoğlu house of the Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire, * ; is an archaic version. The definite article forms and were synonymous * and el, Оθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία, Othōmanikē Avtokratoria, label=none * info page on book at Martin Luther University) ...
in 1579 to support Tarsus Grand Mosque. (İbrahim Bey was also the commissioner of the mosque). In 1960-1961 the bedesten was repaired and reopened to public use.
Details
The construction material of the rectangular plan bedesten is cut stone. The roof is made of five domes. There are 18 rooms all of which are used as shops in the bedesten./ref>
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