Car?amba
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Car?amba: The Mosque of Hirami Ahmet Pasha.
Car?amba
Coordinates: 41°01′40.28″N 28°56′44.84″E  /  41.0278556°N 28.9457889°E  / 41.0278556; 28.9457889
Country	Turkey
Region	Marmara
Province	Istanbul
District	Fatih
Time zone	UTC+3 ( TRT )
Area code	0212

Car?amba (English: "Wednesday") is a small part of the Fatih district of Istanbul , Turkey , close to the Fatih Mosque . It is one of the most conservative ^{[ citation needed ]} areas of the city.

According to the 17th-century Ottoman traveler Evliya Celebi , the district takes its name from the town of Car?amba on the Black Sea coast since, after the fall of Constantinople in 1453, this part of the city was repopulated with people from Car?amba. ^[1] However, others think it acquired its name from the large Wednesday (Car?amba in Turkish) Market held here every week.

The neighbourhood is home to two Byzantine churches that were converted into mosques after the Conquest of Constantinople in 1453: the Fethiye and Hirami Ahmet Pasha mosques .

Car?amba is also home to the Sultan Selim Mosque , built by Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent for his father Yavuz Sultan Selim (Selim the Grim in English) whose shrine stands in the grounds. The mosque is usually attributed to Mimar Sinan although there is no record of it in the official list of his works. it was a favourite with the Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier who admired its simplicity of form.

Here, too, is the ?smail A?a Mosque , built in 1724, and named after a ?eyhulislam named ?smail Efendi (1645-1725). Its congregation has a particular reputation for conservatism.

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• Mamboury, Ernest (1953). The Tourists' Istanbul . Istanbul: Cituri Biraderler Basımevi.

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