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Event details

installation
name
Reservoir of Aspar – Change of function (mosque)
event type
Change of function
start date
1520
end date
1566
date comments
Reign of Suleiman I.
persons
description

A small mosque was built within the Reservoir of Aspar. It does not survive into the present, as the reservoir was cleared in 2012 to be transformed into a park.

Müller-Wiener (1977) claims it was added in the 16th century by Suleiman I, however, his listed sources - von Hammer 1822 and Forchheimer & Strzygowski 1893 - do not mention any building activity by Suleiman. Only Forchheimer & Stryzgowski claim that a small mosque was built in what they call "Tschukúr bostan" (Çukurbostan, "sunken garden" a name given to overgrown cisterns). Only the mention of the Sultan Selim mosque in its proximity indicates that this is in the same neighbourhood as the Reservoir of Aspar.

comments
EDITORS: according to Müller-Wiener, 1977, p. 279, details about this mosque can be found in von Hammer's work.