Mosque with Three Mihrabs: A Fifteenth-Century Mosque in Istanbul
Site at a Glance
- Rating
- 4.6
- Popularity
- Low
- Country
- Turkey
- Primary era
- Medieval
- Eras represented
- Medieval
- Civilizations
- Ottoman
- Site type
- Religious
- Remains
- Mosque
History
The Mosque with Three Mihrabs is a fifteenth-century mosque in Istanbul, Turkey. It stands in the Küçükpazar neighborhood of Unkapanı and is also known as the Three-Mihrab Hoca Hayreddin Mosque. The name Hoca is a Turkish honorific traditionally associated with a teacher or religious scholar, although the specific connection of Hoca Hayreddin to the mosque is not identified here.
The mosque is described as the only mosque in Istanbul with three mihrabs. A mihrab is a niche indicating the direction of prayer. Its imam, the person who leads Muslim congregational prayer, can lead each daily prayer from a different mihrab.
