Muğdat Mosque ( tr, Muğdat CamisiCamisif mosque in

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 ...

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 ...

. It is named after

Miqdad ibn Aswad Miqdaad ibn Amr al-Bahrani ( ar, المقداد بن عمرو ٱلْبَهْرَانِيّ, '), better known as al-Miqdaad ibn al-Aswad al-Kindi ( ar, المقداد بن الأسود ٱلْكِنْدِيّ) or simply Miqdaad, was one of the Sah ...

, one of the early Muslims.

Geography

The mosque was built in 1980s in the Yenişehir second-level district of Mersin. Although the official name of the neighbourhood is Gazi, it is usually called Muğdat after the name of the mosque. The mosque is situated at the north of

Mersin Archaeological Museum Mersin Archaeological Museum is a museum in Mersin, Turkey Location The museum is at to the east of Mersin Naval Museum, to the south of Muğdat Mosque and to the north of Adnan Menderes Boulevard. Its total land area , including the yard is ...

and the Mersin Naval Museum. Its distance to

Mediterranean The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Western and Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, and on the e ...

sea side is about . The total area of the mosque including the yard is and the base area of the building is

The building

The mosque has a capacity to offer service to 5500 people. With this capacity it is the largest mosque in Mersin and the third largest mosque built during the Republican era of Turkey. It is also one of the three six-minaret mosques of Turkey. (Originally the mosque had four minarets, the next two were added recently) The height of the minarets is . On each minaret there are three minaret balconies ( tr, şerefe) . Muğdat mosque is actually a complex like the traditional Ottoman mosques. In addition to religious services, the mosque has facilities including a conference room, a library, a guest house a condolences room and a health center. The basement of the building is a supermarket.Mersin governor's page

Gallery

File:Mersin Mugdat Mosque - outside - 2015-10-17.jpg , View from south-east File:Mersin Mugdat Mosque - inside 4 - 2015-10-17.jpg , Inside the mosque File:Mersin Mugdat Mosque - inside 3 - 2015-10-17.jpg , View to the main dome File:Mersin Mugdat Mosque - window - 2015-10-17.jpg , Stained glass over the south entrance File:Muğdat Camii.JPG , The façade from north-east

References

External links

Photo gallery (Wowturkey)
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