Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Foreword
- 1 Tourism and Heritage: Crafting Experiences Through Innovation
- 2 Tourism Conflicts and Conflict Tourism: Curating “Holoscapes” in Europe’s Age of Crisis
- 3 Heritage Landscapes of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- 4 Revealing and Presenting the Past(s) for the Public: Fethiye Mosque and Museum as a Cultural Heritage Site in Istanbul
- 5 Who Takes the Lead in Initiating Cooperation in a Cultural Network and Why?: The case study of a Rural Finnish Destination
- 6 Sustainability of Heritage-Tourism Destinations: A Demand-Based Perspective on Cusco, Peru
- 7 Localising National Tourism Websites: The case of World Heritage sites
- 8 Enhancing the Tourist Heritage Experience through “In-Situ”, Customisable, 3D-Printed Souvenirs
- 9 Tracking the Heritage Tourist: Heritage tourism and Visiting Patterns in a Historic City
- 10 The Construction of a Tourist-Historic Icon: The case of the Palace of Westminster, London
- 11 Conclusion
- Index
4 - Revealing and Presenting the Past(s) for the Public: Fethiye Mosque and Museum as a Cultural Heritage Site in Istanbul
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 December 2020
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Foreword
- 1 Tourism and Heritage: Crafting Experiences Through Innovation
- 2 Tourism Conflicts and Conflict Tourism: Curating “Holoscapes” in Europe’s Age of Crisis
- 3 Heritage Landscapes of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- 4 Revealing and Presenting the Past(s) for the Public: Fethiye Mosque and Museum as a Cultural Heritage Site in Istanbul
- 5 Who Takes the Lead in Initiating Cooperation in a Cultural Network and Why?: The case study of a Rural Finnish Destination
- 6 Sustainability of Heritage-Tourism Destinations: A Demand-Based Perspective on Cusco, Peru
- 7 Localising National Tourism Websites: The case of World Heritage sites
- 8 Enhancing the Tourist Heritage Experience through “In-Situ”, Customisable, 3D-Printed Souvenirs
- 9 Tracking the Heritage Tourist: Heritage tourism and Visiting Patterns in a Historic City
- 10 The Construction of a Tourist-Historic Icon: The case of the Palace of Westminster, London
- 11 Conclusion
- Index
Summary
Abstract
Because of its long history of transformation, appropriation, and contestation, Istanbul's religious heritage dating back to Byzantine times is a potential showcase for the city's multiple and multilayered pasts. In this chapter the challenges in dealing with this particular heritage are illustrated with the case study of Fethiye Mosque and Museum, a complex consisting of a former church that was converted into a mosque as well as a chapel (now museum) that apparently kept its Christian form and appearance. The chapter seeks to establish what constitutes Fethiye complex as a heritage site and proposes possible solutions for unlocking and representing its complex history and therewith embedding and integrating it in the city's social and touristic infrastructure.
Keywords: Istanbul, religious heritage, Fethiye Mosque, multilayered history
Because of its long history of transformation, appropriation, and contestation, Istanbul's religious heritage dating back to Byzantine times is a potential showcase for the city's multiple and multilayered pasts. In this chapter the challenges in dealing with this particular heritage are illustrated with the case study of Fethiye Mosque and Museum, a complex consisting of a former church that was converted into a mosque as well as a chapel (now museum) that apparently kept its Christian form and appearance. The chapter seeks to establish what constitutes the Fethiye complex as a heritage site and proposes possible solutions for unlocking and representing its complex history and therewith embedding and integrating it in the city's social and touristic infrastructure.
On the fifth hill of Istanbul's historic peninsula in the neighbourhood of Çarşamba stands the building complex that is known as the Fethiye Mosque and Museum (Fethiye Camii and Müzesi). The museum part of the complex can be entered via a ticket gate, which gives access to a courtyard where fragments of architectural sculpture are arranged. On the north side of the courtyard a multi-storeyed cubical building of stone and brickwork, surmounted by three domes, is situated to the right, abutted by a lower, one-storey structure and a minaret to the left.
Having entered the building via a portal in the left-hand corner one sees the interior of a rather narrow but relatively long and high structure consisting of different spaces with an apse at the eastern end.
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- Heritage and TourismPlaces, Imageries and the Digital Age, pp. 77 - 94Publisher: Amsterdam University PressPrint publication year: 2018