Taksim Mosque

Taksim Mosque (Turkish: Taksim Camii) is a mosque complex in Taksim Square, Istanbul. It was designed by two Turkish architects in the Art Deco style,^[6][7][8] and can hold up to 3,000 worshippers at the same time. Construction began on February 17, 2017, and lasted for four years.^[9] The mosque was inaugurated with a Friday prayer attended by the President, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, on 28 May 2021.^[10]

The land on which the mosque was built is currently owned by the Directorate General of Foundations.^[11][9]

The plan for a mosque in Taksim Square has been in the making since 1952. The "Taksim Mosque Building and Sustenance Association" was founded with the aim to construct a mosque in Taksim Square, but was closed after the 1980 military coup in Turkey. The Council of State stopped the Taksim Mosque project in 1983 on the grounds that it was "not in the public interest".^[9]

The Taksim Mosque remained on the agenda of the governments of Turgut Özal in the 1980s and Necmettin Erbakan in 1996. The project has always been closely scrutinized by the media and has encountered legal obstacles because Taksim Square had been closely associated with republicanism and secularism. A court objected to the construction of the mosque on the grounds that it would be against the public interest. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had supported the idea of the mosque since becoming Istanbul's mayor in 1994. The prospect of the new mosque was one element in the Gezi Park protests in 2013.^[12]

In January 2017, the mosque was approved by the Cultural Monuments Preservation Board, which oversees the construction of protected, historic sites, thereby removing the last obstacle to its construction.

La mezquita se encuentra justo detrás de Taksim Maksemi , el depósito de agua de piedra construido por el sultán Mahmud I en 1731. La mezquita está frente al Centro Cultural Atatürk, al otro lado de la plaza Taksim . La calle peatonal comercial Istiklal Caddesi sale de la plaza Taksim junto a la mezquita. La iglesia ortodoxa griega de Santa Triada se encuentra al otro lado de la calle Istiklal, frente a la mezquita.

Sin contar los dos minaretes , la mezquita tiene una altura aproximada de 30 m (98 pies) , igual que las dos iglesias históricas de la zona. Su diseño, que reinterpreta el estilo tradicional de cúpulas característico de Sinan, se ha adaptado ingeniosamente a su entorno limitado. El complejo incluye una sala de conferencias y exposiciones y un aparcamiento subterráneo. ^{[ 11 ]}  

El diseño de la mezquita presenta detalles que no se encuentran en la arquitectura clásica otomana turca , como la forma y la proporción de los balcones de gran tamaño en los minaretes. Las cúpulas más pequeñas que rodean la cúpula principal recuerdan, en cuanto a diseño, a la arquitectura mogol .

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  Mezquita con el monumento de Taksim en primer plano.
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  Parte superior del mihrab (nicho de oración)
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  El minbar (púlpito para sermones)
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  Una vista de la cúpula
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  El interior de la cúpula
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  Vista nocturna de la mezquita con las luces de Mahya dando la bienvenida al mes sagrado del Ramadán.

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