Kırkkaşık Bedesten
Kırkkaşık Bedesten is a bedesten (covered market) in Tarsus, Mersin, Tarsus, Turkey. There are figures of lotus (genus), 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 in Mersin Province. It is situated at in Camii Nur neighbourhood of Tarsus, adjacent to Tarsus Grand Mosque History In Medieval Turkish tradition, Waqf, Vakıf 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 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 mate ...
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