- IŞS 9, 52a, July 8, 1661 ; IŞS 9, 86a, August 1 3, 1661.
- Today Saint George is located within the complex of the Austrian High
School. - The Armenian churches Surp (Saint) Sarkis and Surp Nigoğos in Kumkapı
burned in the fi re and were subsequently repaired. On orders of the grand vizier, the
latter was razed in 1661 and the former in 1 674. See Eremya Çelebi, İstanbul Tarihi, 3 nn.
84–85. - She had a reputation for charitable giving, establishing a foundation support-
ing a hospital and soup kitchen in Mecca. Hathaway, The Politics of Households in Otto-
man Egypt, 1 50. - Defterdar Sarı Mehmed, Zübde-i Vekayiât (Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu
Basımevi, 1 995), 606–7. - The Garden of the Mosques: Hafız Hüseyin Al-Ayvansarayî’s Guide to the Muslim
Monuments of Ottoman Istanbul, trans. Howard Crane (Leiden: Brill, 2000), 357–58. - The Valide Sultan Mosque in Eminönü is one of the most important mosques
and one of the leading tourist attractions in Istanbul today. It is undergoing renovation.
The Valide Sultan Mosque in Galata, however, was demolished in 1 936 to create the
Galata Hardware Market. Semavi Eyice, Galata ve Kulesi (Istanbul: Türkiye Turing ve
Otomobil Kurumu, 1 969), 1 6. - Katip Çelebi, Fezleke, 2:225, Naima, Tarih-i Naima, 4: 1 8– 1 9.
1 00. IŞS 9, fol. 244a, January 1 3, 1 662. - Başbakanlık Osmanlı Arş ivi (hereafter cited as BOA, Prime Ministry’s Otto-
man Archive), Istanbul, Şikâyet Defteri (Complaint Register): 6, 1 05, no. 456, Decem-
ber–January 1 668.
1 02. About one hundred Jewish households eventually resettled in Eminönü. But
because Jews were accused of engaging in many “abominable acts,” they were expelled
in 1 727 so that only Muslims could reside near the mosque. Ahmed Refi k, Onikinci
Asr-ı Hicrî’de İstanbul Hayatı (1689–1785) ( 1 930; Istanbul: Enderun Kitabevi, 1 988), 88–
- Today a kosher restaurant overlooks the plaza between the mosque and Egyptian
Market.
1 03. IŞS 1 0, fols. 67b–68a, June 4, 1 662.
1 04. IŞS 1 0, fol. 11 0b, July 7, 1 662.
1 05. BOA, Şikâyet Defteri: 8, 48 1 , no. 2338, May 1 8–27, 1 673.
1 06. İstanbul Müftülüğü, Şer‘iye Sicilleri Arşivi, Galata Şer‘iye Sicilleri (hereafter
cited as GŞS) 11 0, 1 26, undated 1671 –73.
1 07. İstanbul Müftülüğü, Şer‘iye Sicilleri Arşivi, Yeniköy Şer‘iye Sicilleri (hereafter
cited as YŞS) 1 8/54, 1 68, May 27, 1 664; YŞS 1 64, February 1 2, 1 665.
1 08. Hayati Develi, “İstanbul’a Dair ‘Risâle-i Garîbe,” İstanbul Araştırmaları 1 (Bahar
1 997), 111 (fols. 63b–64a).
chapter 51. Abdi Pasha, Vekāyi‘nāme, fol. 3a. Subsequent references to this source are citedparenthetically throughout the text.
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