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The Sulaymaniyya Takiyya ( Arabic: التَّكِيَّة السُّلَيْمَانِيَّة, romanized : at-Takiyya as-Sulaymāniyya; Turkish: Şam Süleymaniye Külliyesi [1]) is a takiyya ( Ottoman-era Arabic name for a mosque complex which served as a Sufi convent) in Damascus, Syria, located on the right bank of the Barada River. [2 ...
t. e. The Salimiyya Takiyya ( Arabic: التكية السليمية, romanized : at-Takiyya as-Salīmiyya) is a takiyya ( Ottoman-era Arabic name for a mosque complex which served as a Sufi convent) in as-Salihiyya, Damascus . The complex was built over and in the surroundings of Ibn Arabi 's tomb in 924/1518 by the Ottoman sultan Selim I upon ...
The House of Saint Ananias (also called Saint Ananias House or Chapel of Saint Ananias; Arabic: كَنيسَةُ الْقِدِّيسِ حَنَانِيَا, romanized: Kanīsat al-Qiddīs Ḥanāniyā) is an ancient underground structure in Damascus, Syria, that is said to be the remains of the home of Ananias of Damascus, where Ananias baptized Saul (who became Paul the Apostle). [1]
Sulaymaniyya Takiyya, the western part of which, comprising a mosque and an imaret, was commissioned by Suleiman the Magnificent and built between 1554 and 1559 to a design by Mimar Sinan; [10] the Salimiyya Madrasa was built adjoining it in 1566 (named after Suleiman's son Selim II but possibly commissioned by Suleiman himself before his death ...
Şehzade Mehmed Burhaneddin was born on 19 December 1885 in the Yıldız Palace. [ 1][ 2][ 3] His father was Sultan Abdul Hamid II and his mother was Mezidemestan Kadın, daughter of Kaymat Mikanba. [ 4] He was only the child of his mother. [ 5][ 2] Abdul Hamid named him in the memory of his deceased half-brother, Şehzade Mehmed Burhaneddin. [ 6]
Refia Sultan died at the age of forty seven in 1938 in Beirut, Lebanon and was buried in the cemetery of the Sulaymaniyya Takiyya, Damascus, Syria. Her mother outlived her by seven years dying in 1945. Honours. Order of the House of Osman; Order of the Medjidie, Jeweled; Order of Charity, 1st Class; Liakat Medal in Gold
Khadra Palace. Coordinates: 33°30′39″N 36°18′22″E. The Khadra Palace, known in Arabic as Qubbat al-Khadra (قبة الخضراء, lit. 'the Green Dome'), was a residence of the Umayyad caliphs in Damascus. It was founded by the first Umayyad caliph, Mu'awiya I (r. 661–680), while he was governor of Syria under Caliph Uthman (r. 644 ...
Sunni Islam. Seniha Sultan ( Ottoman Turkish: سنیحه سلطان; " Pearl "; 5 December 1851 – 15 September 1931) was an Ottoman princess, the daughter of Sultan Abdulmejid I and Nalandil Hanım. She was the half-sister of Sultans Murad V, Abdul Hamid II, Mehmed V, and Mehmed VI .