Zeyrek
Coordinates: 41°1′11″N 28°57′26″E / 41.01972°N 28.95722°E
Clothes drying in ruins of a wooden house
Old houses on Ibadethane Sk.
Zeyrek is part of the Fatih district of Istanbul. It overlooks the Golden Horn, and got its name from the mosque of Zeyrek.[1] It hosts also several Byzantine cisterns and the little Şeyh Süleyman Mosque, also of Byzantine origin. [2] It is a picturesque but poor neighborhood.
The center of Zeyrek is on the World Heritage list as part of the Historic Areas of Istanbul, the World Heritage site.
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Media related to Zeyrek at Wikimedia Commons
- Eyice, Semavi (1955). Istanbul. Petite Guide a travers les Monuments Byzantins et Turcs (in French). Istanbul: Istanbul Matbaası.
- Müller-Wiener, Wolfgang (1977). Bildlexikon zur Topographie Istanbuls: Byzantion, Konstantinupolis, Istanbul bis zum Beginn d. 17 Jh (in German). Tübingen: Wasmuth. ISBN 978-3-8030-1022-3.
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