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Mid-Century Sinan: Vasfi Egeli and the Turkish Republic’s First Mosque

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Mid-Century Sinan: Vasfi Egeli and the Turkish Republic’s First Mosque

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With its revival of classical Ottoman forms, Şişli Mosque (1945–1949) has often been overlooked as an anachronistic reaction to the Turkish Republic’s secular modernist architecture of the 1930s and 40s. However, its eclectic design by restorer-architect Vasfi Egeli and attentive craftsmanship executed by the last Ottoman-trained masters distinguish the Şişli Mosque from the mass-produced followers it inspired. After the fall of the Ottoman Empire in the first decades of the newly established republic, formal permission was not granted for any major religious construction projects until 1945 when ground broke on Şişli Mosque. This study examines architect Vasfi Egeli’s nationalization of classical Ottoman mosque architecture during the İnönü era, citations in the mosque’s decorative program, and the influence of restoration activities. As the first monumental mosque in the Turkish Republic, Şişli Mosque set an influential precedent in its reconciliation of classical Ottoman architecture with a nationalized Turkish Islamic identity and rearticulation of the mosque within the context of republican era religious reforms.

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Teşekkür

This article is indebted to the guidance of Professor Gülru Necipoğlu and Dr. Himmet Taşkömür who supervised my undergraduate honors thesis from which this article is adapted. Research and fieldwork in Turkey were generously supported by an Abramson Travel Fellowship from the Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University. I would like to express my gratitude to Hüseyin Erek, Director of the Şişli Mosque Foundation; Anne Joyce; Özge Yıldız; and Dr. Perin Gürel for their support. Many thanks to the anonymous reviewers of the article, as well as the editors and copyeditors of YILLIK

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Ayrıntılar

Birincil Dil

İngilizce

Konular

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Bölüm

Araştırma Makalesi

Yayımlanma Tarihi

30 Aralık 2021

Gönderilme Tarihi

15 Haziran 2021

Kabul Tarihi

24 Eylül 2021

Yayımlandığı Sayı

Yıl 2021 Cilt: 3

Kaynak Göster

APA
Moulton, G. (2021). Mid-Century Sinan: Vasfi Egeli and the Turkish Republic’s First Mosque. YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies, 3, 39-68. https://doi.org/10.53979/yillik.2021.3
AMA
1.Moulton G. Mid-Century Sinan: Vasfi Egeli and the Turkish Republic’s First Mosque. YILLIK. 2021;3:39-68. doi:10.53979/yillik.2021.3
Chicago
Moulton, Gavin. 2021. “Mid-Century Sinan: Vasfi Egeli and the Turkish Republic’s First Mosque”. YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies 3 (Aralık): 39-68. https://doi.org/10.53979/yillik.2021.3.
EndNote
Moulton G (01 Aralık 2021) Mid-Century Sinan: Vasfi Egeli and the Turkish Republic’s First Mosque. YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies 3 39–68.
IEEE
[1]G. Moulton, “Mid-Century Sinan: Vasfi Egeli and the Turkish Republic’s First Mosque”, YILLIK, c. 3, ss. 39–68, Ara. 2021, doi: 10.53979/yillik.2021.3.
ISNAD
Moulton, Gavin. “Mid-Century Sinan: Vasfi Egeli and the Turkish Republic’s First Mosque”. YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies 3 (01 Aralık 2021): 39-68. https://doi.org/10.53979/yillik.2021.3.
JAMA
1.Moulton G. Mid-Century Sinan: Vasfi Egeli and the Turkish Republic’s First Mosque. YILLIK. 2021;3:39–68.
MLA
Moulton, Gavin. “Mid-Century Sinan: Vasfi Egeli and the Turkish Republic’s First Mosque”. YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies, c. 3, Aralık 2021, ss. 39-68, doi:10.53979/yillik.2021.3.
Vancouver
1.Gavin Moulton. Mid-Century Sinan: Vasfi Egeli and the Turkish Republic’s First Mosque. YILLIK. 01 Aralık 2021;3:39-68. doi:10.53979/yillik.2021.3