Glossary:
ABLUTION: Before going into a mosque or before getting ready to do the prayers, one has to clean her/himself at least three times on the organs like head, ears (including back of your head - neck and throat), nose, mouth, hands, arms (at least up to the elbows), and feet. Then, it is supposed to be the fact that you are cleaned up to face God, and you can continue your praying.
ALEM: The crescent (sometimes with a star attached) made out of bronze or copper which is placed on the domes and at the peak of the mosques and minarettes.
ARASTA: A market area which is either covered or the shops of the same trade built in a row, have awnings in front of them; the arastas are generally located around or near the mosques.
BEDESTEN: Also located around the mosques but a vaulted and fireproof part of central building in a covered market where antiques, art objects, jewelry, etc. are sold.
ELEPHANT'S LEG: Huge and large column(s) (usually in 4s) supporting the dome of a mosque. These are, generally, used in large Royal (Sultanate) Mosques.
EXTERIOR COURTYARD: Atrium; open area surrounded by a wallthat separates the mosque from the outside.
FUNERAL SLAB (MUSALLA TAŞI): A table-like altar located near the southern part of the mosque in the courtyard for funeral processions; the coffin is placed on this slab for funeral service.
INNER COURTYAR: The courtyard adjacent to the main mosque building proper and surrounded by porches.
INNER MOSQUE: Inside of the mosque where prayers performed.
LAST ASSEMBLY: The place below porches adjacent to the mosque where late-comers to the mosque perform the prayers; this place is used when the mosque is full.
MAHFİL: Loge; special place rounded by stone or wooden banisters placed on a platform with a stairway leading to it and with decorated ceiling.
MESCİD: Another arabic word for a small mosque, generally, without a minarette.
MİHRAB: A large niche within the mosque which indicated the direction of Mecca, holy city for the Islamic world where the holy stone located in Saudi Arabia, towards which Moslems must face while praying. This is, also, the place where imam (muslim priest) guides the assembly during prayers.
MINARETTE: A slender column-looking edifice, usually, built at one or several corners of a mosque with one to three balconies on for the müezzin (one of the employees of the mosque who chants the time of prayer) to go up and chant the time. At some mosques, there more than one bacony with separate staircases.
MİNBER: A pulpit which is situated to the right of the mihrab (facing to the mihrab) made out of stone or wood with a conical roof representing Heavens. This place used on Fridays and holy days for the sermons.
MÜEZZİN: The person working in a mosque who chants the prayer time at the balcony of the minarette.
MÜEZZİN's LOGE: A special place for the müezzins of mosque(s) tosit together.
MOSQUE: An arabic word, cami, means 'congragation'; an assembly place for the early muslims to learn the teachings of Mohammed the Prophet. Equivalent to "basilica".
SELATİN MOSQUE: Imperial mosques; large mosques built by the Ottoman Sultans and their family members or high ranking officials.
SULTAN's LOGE: A separate special section in the mosque gained entry from outside of the building for the Sultan.
ŞADIRVAN: Generally, a decorative water-depot in the courtyard of the mosques with water-taps on the sides for the people to take ablution before going into the mosque for prayers and practicing.
ŞEREFE: Balcony of Minaret; A regular circular balcony built around the minarette for the müezzin to go up and chant the time of praying.
ABLUTION: Before going into a mosque or before getting ready to do the prayers, one has to clean her/himself at least three times on the organs like head, ears (including back of your head - neck and throat), nose, mouth, hands, arms (at least up to the elbows), and feet. Then, it is supposed to be the fact that you are cleaned up to face God, and you can continue your praying.
ALEM: The crescent (sometimes with a star attached) made out of bronze or copper which is placed on the domes and at the peak of the mosques and minarettes.
ARASTA: A market area which is either covered or the shops of the same trade built in a row, have awnings in front of them; the arastas are generally located around or near the mosques.
BEDESTEN: Also located around the mosques but a vaulted and fireproof part of central building in a covered market where antiques, art objects, jewelry, etc. are sold.
ELEPHANT'S LEG: Huge and large column(s) (usually in 4s) supporting the dome of a mosque. These are, generally, used in large Royal (Sultanate) Mosques.
EXTERIOR COURTYARD: Atrium; open area surrounded by a wallthat separates the mosque from the outside.
FUNERAL SLAB (MUSALLA TAŞI): A table-like altar located near the southern part of the mosque in the courtyard for funeral processions; the coffin is placed on this slab for funeral service.
INNER COURTYAR: The courtyard adjacent to the main mosque building proper and surrounded by porches.
INNER MOSQUE: Inside of the mosque where prayers performed.
LAST ASSEMBLY: The place below porches adjacent to the mosque where late-comers to the mosque perform the prayers; this place is used when the mosque is full.
MAHFİL: Loge; special place rounded by stone or wooden banisters placed on a platform with a stairway leading to it and with decorated ceiling.
MESCİD: Another arabic word for a small mosque, generally, without a minarette.
MİHRAB: A large niche within the mosque which indicated the direction of Mecca, holy city for the Islamic world where the holy stone located in Saudi Arabia, towards which Moslems must face while praying. This is, also, the place where imam (muslim priest) guides the assembly during prayers.
MINARETTE: A slender column-looking edifice, usually, built at one or several corners of a mosque with one to three balconies on for the müezzin (one of the employees of the mosque who chants the time of prayer) to go up and chant the time. At some mosques, there more than one bacony with separate staircases.
MİNBER: A pulpit which is situated to the right of the mihrab (facing to the mihrab) made out of stone or wood with a conical roof representing Heavens. This place used on Fridays and holy days for the sermons.
MÜEZZİN: The person working in a mosque who chants the prayer time at the balcony of the minarette.
MÜEZZİN's LOGE: A special place for the müezzins of mosque(s) tosit together.
MOSQUE: An arabic word, cami, means 'congragation'; an assembly place for the early muslims to learn the teachings of Mohammed the Prophet. Equivalent to "basilica".
SELATİN MOSQUE: Imperial mosques; large mosques built by the Ottoman Sultans and their family members or high ranking officials.
SULTAN's LOGE: A separate special section in the mosque gained entry from outside of the building for the Sultan.
ŞADIRVAN: Generally, a decorative water-depot in the courtyard of the mosques with water-taps on the sides for the people to take ablution before going into the mosque for prayers and practicing.
ŞEREFE: Balcony of Minaret; A regular circular balcony built around the minarette for the müezzin to go up and chant the time of praying.
