Mosque Of Bajazet With The Seraskier's Gate-Mosquee De Bajazet Avec La Porte Du Seraskier-Die Moschee des Bajazet Und Der Eingang Zum Schloss Des Seraskiers

Artist	William Henry Bartlett (1809-1854)
Engraver	Henry Griffiths (Active 1835-1849)
Date	1839
Technique	Steel Engraving
Category	Ottoman Empire And Turkey
Source	The Beauties Of The Bosphorus (London Published For Proprietors By Geo. Virtue 26 Ivy Lane, 1839)

Description

Beyazıt mosque, located in Beyazıt district of Istanbul, was built by Sultan II Beyazıt in 1506. The places where administrative offices were located in the Ottoman Empire were called Kapi (Bab). The word "serasker", which is formed by combining the words "ser" meaning "chief" and "soldier", means "the head of the soldiers, the chief soldier." Therefore, the Seraskar Gate shows the entrance door of the administrative office of the army commander (today's ministry of national defense). It was built by Sultan Mahmut II in 1827.