Gül Mosque
Gül Câmîi
Gül Camii ("Rose Mosque")
Religion
AffiliationSunni Islam
Year consecratedLate 10th-century church; converted into mosque 1490
Location
LocationIstanbul, Turkey
Gül Mosque is located in Istanbul Fatih
Gül Mosque
Located in the Fatih district of Istanbul
Geographic coordinates41°01′36.00″N 28°57′23.40″E / 41.0266667°N 28.9565000°E / 41.0266667; 28.9565000
Architecture
Typechurch with cross-in-square plan
StyleMiddle Byzantine - Comnenian
Specifications
Length26 m
Width20 m
Minaret(s)1
Materialsbrick, stone

Gül Mosque (Turkish: Gül Camii, meaning Rose Mosque' in English) is a former Byzantine church in Istanbul, Turkey, converted into a mosque by the Ottomans.

It is in Vakıf Mektebi Sokak in the district of Fatih, Istanbul, in the neighbourhood of Ayakapı ('Gate of the Saint'). It lies at the end of the valley which divides the fourth and fifth hills of Constantinople and overlooks the Golden Horn from its imposing position .[1]

  1. ^ The word Aya (Τurkish for "saint", from the Greek "Haghios", "Haghia") refers here to St Euphemia, and not to St Theodosia. Janin (1953), p. 135.
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