Şakirin Mosque

This is a big modern mosque inside one of the biggest cemeteries in the world.

Beautiful, modern mosque. The cemetery which it overlooks is the largest in Turkey, one of the largest in the world and is very leafy and peaceful and well-maintained. If you have time, enter the cemetery at the bottom and walk up to the mosque. I also highly recommend walking the short distance from this mosque to the nearby Çinili Mosque, which is very old but also very beautiful.

Pretty amazing and relatively a new mosque to pray and pay attention about our lives as the mosque is at the corner of the graveyard. Despite this fact, people see life from a materialistic perspective which I have witnessed when a janazza was performed. The Üsküdar area is highly engraved with secularism and empty souls are floated around. I dislike this area and besides there is nothing to see there!

Shows how far modern architecture has come, quite a sight, almost zero tourists, a nice, calm cemetery near the mosque, don't be afraid of the dogs, they are mostly friendly

A beautiful, one of a kind mosque with a modern design. The architect was a woman, a first in Turkey. The chandelier in particular is amazing, like glowing raindrops. This is the mosque serving the adjacent cemetery, so there are frequently burial services in the courtyard. Definitely worth a visit if you're in Istanbul for more than a couple days and venture over to the Asian side of the city.

Şakirin Mosque is a mosque in Istanbul, Turkey. The building is located at one of the entrances of Karacaahmet Cemetery in Üsküdar. It was built by the Semiha Şakir Foundation in memory of İbrahim Şakir and Semiha Şakir and opened on 7 May 2009. According to newspaper reports, it is the most carbon-neutral mosque in Turkey. KARACAAHMET CEMETERY AND MOSQUE It is the largest of Turkey and one of the biggest cemeteries of the world. Karacaahmet covers 750 acres of land where the Sultan lodge is also found. It is firstly thought that the soldiers, who were killed during the siege of Istanbul by the Arabs, were buried here. The cemetery named after Karaca Ahmet sent to Istanbul by Haci Bektas-i Veli to spread Islam. Karacaahmet Cemetery was expropriated four times including in 1917, 1940, 1956, 1974. During this expropriating, it was severely damaged especially during the confiscation of highways in 1974. Total number of burials is not known precisely as records were not kept in the past but they are expressed in millions. It contains the graves of many important names of Turkish political and cultural life. Tombstones and sarcophaguses pose important art properties with different types of headings. The inscription on the tombstone has the value of art, if they were prepared by a calligrapher's hand. Karacaahmet Mosque (Fethi Ahmet Pasha Mosque); is located; in Kapı Agasi location and opposite the Karacaahmet Sultan tomb. In the 1934 City Directory, it is seen that there is a path on three sides of the mosque. On Kiblah side of the mosque and across the road, 1855 dated Fethi Ahmet Pasha Fountain, the family cemetery of Serasker Namik Pasha and Fethi Ahmet Pasha, 1741 dated fountains and public fountain of Sadeddin Efendi are located on the left side of the tomb of Sultan Karacaahmet. We are aware that there is a fountain which was built in 1545-46 by Grand Vizier Rustem Pasha in the place where the mosque is, or on the right side of the tomb of Sultan Karacaahmet and is square today, with Masons Mosque built by Mehmet Aga the officer of Mihrimah Sultan Mosque died in 1548. The sanctuary ruined as the time went by, made rebuilt as it looks today by Fethi Ahmet Pasha in 1855. The mosque has stone walls and minaret and wooden roof and it is plastered. Opposite the mosque, there is the tomb of a person renowned under the name Himmet Dede, who died in 1631-32.

Modern, clean lines and totally fresh design & concept. This mosque is peacefully relaxing and soothing for the prayers. Space is well used and natural light plays a beautiful game within the interior. Sleek & stylish.

One of most unique and authentic mosque I ever visited. Whan an astonishing worshiping place. Architecture is from the future. Interesting part is that, it is first mosque designed by women in Turkey.