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- A Dar al-Muwaqqit (Arabic: دار المؤقت), or muvakkithane in Turkish, is a room or structure accompanying a mosque which was used by the muwaqqit or timekeeper...
- and altered so that they were of equal height. A clock building, the Muvakkithane, was built by the Fossatis for use by the muwaqqit (the mosque timekeeper)...
- side of the portal mark the presence of interior rooms which housed the muvakkithane (chamber of the timekeeper). The courtyard, measuring around 47 by 57...
- noted that many mosques in Istanbul have buildings or rooms called muvakkithanes [tr] ("lodge of the muwaqqit"). Ottoman sultans and other notables built...
- Emetullah Râbi'a Gülnûş Sultan, a courtyard shadirvan (fountain), a muvakkithane (clock tower) and offices. The building is typical of the classical Ottoman...
- (mescit) and place for sema (tevhithâne) at the zawiya of Murad Efendi; a muvakkithane at the Koca Mustafa Paşa Mosque; a park (mesire) and fountain in the...
- (charitable complex) that also included a mektep (primary school), a muvakkithane (timekeeper's house), a fountain and a hamam (bathhouse). More innovative...
- muwaqqit he likely taught astronomy in the muwaqqit's institutions (muvakkithanes) of these mosques, and that Turkish was the language of instruction...
- of the nineteenth century and were used as textbooks in madrasa and muvakkithanes (offices of the muwaqqits). Fazlıoğlu characterised his works by their...