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  • Fenari Isa Mosque

  • Fenari Isa Mosque

    Fenari Isa Mosque, previously known as the Lips Monastery during the Byzantine period, is a historical mosque located in Istanbul, Turkey. The mosque was made of two previous Orthodox churches dating back to the Byzantine era in the 10th century AD. They were converted into a mosque in the fifteenth century AD, during the reign of the Ottoman Sultan Bayezid II.
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    Fenari Isa Mosque
    by A. Fabbretti, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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    Fenari Isa Mosque

    Archaeological Site

     

     

    mosque

    Mosques and Islamic Buildings

    Location

    Turkey

    Istanbul

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    10th Century AD

    Byzantine

    Islamic

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    Mixed Monuments

     

     

     

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