Beylerbeyi and Emirgan mosque in the ottoman archive

The political, social, cultural and artistic convergence of the Ottoman Empire with Europe, which opened to the west for the purpose of regaining the lost power, has given the Ottoman Empire a new dimension in every field. In particular, new techniques and styles from the West started to be used in architecture. These styles were created in the hands of Ottoman architects and formed a unique style that we can call Turkish rococo and baroque. In this turbulent time of the Ottoman Empire in economic situation, the measures taken by Abdulhamid I and the facilities he had builded despite all the problems were examined in the light of foundations created for them. This rich archive of the Ottoman Empire appears through sometimes in a museum with an item of unknown makers, in a building built by members of a palace, lost a palace, a manor or any structure, sometimes in foundations founded by the sultans or the other imperial family and sometimes via the artchives of the presents given to the the sultans for a variety of reasons. Coming from this context, the second and third sections which constitutes the main research of the thesis studies the Beylerbeyi and Emirgan mosques which are among the vaqif buildings constructed by the Abdulhamid I on the basis of archival documents. By mostly using the repair documents the changes undergone by the mosques until today were tried to be addressed In fact, apart from the repairs, through the archival papers we know that the Emirgan Mosque was almost completely rebuild by the Mahmud II. Mahmud II also added a new minaret and a special place for sultan's to pray to the Beylerbeyi Mosque. It can be extracted from the archive records that large changes bearing artistic styles of the relevant periods were added in repairs and additions. In the thesis, the repair and change of forms of the mosques, which were founded by Abdulhamid I, will be examined in the light of archival documents. Furthermore, the artistic styles used in mosques will be analyzed.