From a Courtyard to a Square: Transformation of the Beyazıt Meydanı in the Early Nineteenth Century in İstanbul

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Gürallar Yeşilkaya, Neşe

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After a short city survey on the sultan’s mosques (selâtin camileri) in the Historical Peninsula, a person, even not very familiar with the traditional fabric of İstanbul, may be stunned by the fact that the exterior courtyard of the Beyazıt Mosque is missing. How did a traditional courtyard turn into an open city square and what was the significance of this transformation? This study is devised to shed light on this issue.

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Mahmud II, Janissaries, Seraskerlik, Beyazıt Square, Avlu, Harem, Harîm

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/50972
http://jfa.arch.metu.edu.tr/archive/0258-5316/2007/cilt24/sayi_1/71-92.pdf

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ODTÜ Mimarlık Fakültesi Dergisi

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Department of Architecture, Article

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N. Gürallar Yeşilkaya, “From a Courtyard to a Square: Transformation of the Beyazıt Meydanı in the Early Nineteenth Century in İstanbul,” ODTÜ Mimarlık Fakültesi Dergisi, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 71–92, 2007, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/50972.