Zeyrek
Zeyrek is a neighborhood of Fatih district in Istanbul, Turkey. 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.
Clothes drying in ruins of a wooden house
Old houses on Ibadethane Sk.
The center of Zeyrek is on the World Heritage list as part of the Historic Areas of Istanbul, the World Heritage Site.
Notes
- Eyice (1955), p. 59
- Müller-Wiener (1976), p. 202
References
- 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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