Nilüfer Hatun Imareti (İznik, Turkey)
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Nilüfer Hatun Imareti (İznik, Turkey)
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Museum buildings Turkey
Soup kitchens Turkey
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- Work cat.: Tony Landreau Collection on Turkish Carpet Weaving and Village Life website, 30 Oct. 2018:slide IZNSMNHI0006.jpg (name not given; depicts a view of the Nilüfer Hatun Imareti; in Iznik, Turkey)
- Nilüfer Hatun Imareti; Iznik, Turkey; The inscriptive plaque (kitabe) above the entry announces that Murad I, son of Orhan I, built this soup kitchen (imaret) in 790 A.H., in the memory of his mother Nilüfer Hatun. After many years of abandonment, the soup kitchen has been restored to its original condition in 1955. It is currently the home of the Iznik Museum ( (ARCHNET, viewed 30 Oct. 2018) )
- Wikipedia, 31 Oct. 2018:Nilüfer Hatun Imareti (Nilüfer Hatun Imareti (Turkish for "Nilüfer Hatun Soup Kitchen"), a convent annex hospice for dervishes, now housing the Iznik Museum in İznik, Bursa Province; building was erected in 1388 for Murat I who dedicated it to his mother Nilüfer Hatun; building originally served as a hostel for the Ahi Brotherhood of Virtue, a religious and fraternal society formed by the craft guilds in Anatolia during the Seljuk period; Nilüfer's foundations was later used as an imaret, or refectory, serving free food to the poor of Iznik. The building was abandoned for many years but was restored in 1955. Today it houses the Iznik Museum, with archaeological and ethnological collections, including an exhibition of the famous Iznik kilns)
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Wikipedia description:
Nilüfer Hatun Imareti (Turkish for "Nilüfer Hatun's Soup Kitchen"), a convent annex hospice for dervishes, now housing the Iznik Museum in İznik, Bursa Province, Turkey. This elegant building was erected in 1388 for Murad I who dedicated it to his later mother Nilüfer Hatun. During Murad's reign Nilüfer s recognized as Valide Hatun, the first in Ottoman history to hold this title, and when she died she was buried beside her consort Orhan Gazi in Bursa.
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