Mersin Grand Mosque ( tr, Mersin
Ulucami) is a
Grand Mosque
A congregational mosque or Friday mosque (, ''masjid jāmi‘'', or simply: , ''jāmi‘''; ), or sometimes great mosque or grand mosque (, ''jāmi‘ kabir''; ), is a mosque for hosting the Friday noon prayers known as ''jumu'ah''.*
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Mersin
Mersin (), also known as İçel, is a large city and a port on the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean coast of southern Turkey. It is the provincial capital of Mersin Province, Mersin (İçel) Province. It is made up of four municipalities and dis ...
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Turkey
Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...
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History
The original
mosque
A mosque (; from ar, مَسْجِد, masjid, ; literally "place of ritual prostration"), also called masjid, is a place of prayer for Muslims. Mosques are usually covered buildings, but can be any place where prayers ( sujud) are performed, ...
, then named Yeni Cami ( tr, New Mosque), was built in 1898 by the leading people (like Abdülkadir Seydavi) of Mersin. In the 1970s, the mosque has been rebuilt and was renamed Ulucami.
The building
The mosque is in
Akdeniz
Akdeniz is a municipality and district governorate in Greater Mersin, Turkey. Mersin is one of the 30 Metropolitan centers in Turkey with more than one municipality within city borders. Now in Mersin there are four second-level municipalities ...
secondary municipality of Mersin (Central Mersin). It is at the intersection of the main streets.
Atatürk Park
Atatürk Park is a public park in Mersin, Turkey.
Geography
The park is a Mediterranean coastal park of Akdeniz district. The longer dimension of the park, which is more than lies along the sea coast in north east to south west direction. ...
is to the south and business quarter of the city is to the north and west. The square ground area of the mosque is about The mosque shares this area with a small shopping area named ''Ulu Çarşı''. The parking area is below the basement.
It is a three-storey mosque. The prayer section for 3000 people and nartex is at the ground floor. The conference room for 400 people and Youth center is at the basement. There are two minarets one at the east and one at the west. Each minaret has two
şerefes (minaret balconies)
See also
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List of Turkish Grand Mosques
This is a list of Turkish Grand Mosques or ''Ulucami'', a title originally given to the grandest Friday mosque of a Turkish city where local citizens traditionally gathered en masse for Friday Prayers, though today it is common for Muslims in a si ...
References
External links
Photos of the mosque
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Mosques in Mersin
Mosque buildings with domes
Mersin
Mersin (), also known as İçel, is a large city and a port on the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean coast of southern Turkey. It is the provincial capital of Mersin Province, Mersin (İçel) Province. It is made up of four municipalities and dis ...
Mosques completed in 1898
Mosques completed in 1979
1898 establishments in the Ottoman Empire
19th-century religious buildings and structures in Turkey
20th-century religious buildings and structures in Turkey