The Yıldız Hamidiye Mosque (), also called the Yıldız Mosque (), is an Ottoman imperial mosque located in Yıldız neighbourhood of

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district in

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, on the way to

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. The mosque was commissioned by the Ottoman sultan

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, and constructed between 1884 and 1886. The mosque was built on a rectangular plan and has one

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. The architecture of the mosque is a combination of

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style and classical Ottoman motifs. A bronze colonnade erected by Abdul Hamid II in

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bears a replica statue of the Yıldız Mosque on top. On 4 August 2017, the mosque was reopened by President

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after 4 years of restoration work that cost 27 million Turkish liras ($7.6 million).

Assassination attempt of Abdul Hamid II

On 21 July 1905, members of the

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attempted to assassinate

by placing a horse carriage bomb in front of the mosque, an event known as the Yıldız assassination attempt. Although the bomb failed to kill the sultan due to an unforeseen delay, it killed 26 others and wounded 58 more. The attempt was in response to the pogroms and massacres against Armenians and other minorities of the Ottoman Empire carried out by Abdul Hamid II's government, the

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Assassination attempt of Abdul Hamid II

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