The monastery was later fortified, and during the First Crusade it hosted the army of Godfrey of Bouillon during his sojourn in Constantinople.
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More mosques, schools, tekkes, and fountains were built, and since many Ottoman officials wished to be buried near Abu Ayyub's resting place, the cemetery became one of Istanbul's most desirable.
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At Friday prayer and throughout Ramadan, the area is full of visitors from all over the city.
In 1795, she founded the Mihrişah Valide Sultan School and Külliye in the region of Eyüp in Istanbul.
Later, due to financial problems, the family moved in 1942 to Istanbul to live in a small house at Eyüp district.
He spent the next 37 years in the Monastery of Saints Cosmas and Damian in the Kosmidion suburb of Constantinople (modern Eyüp).
Eyüp | Eyüp Cemetery |
In Turkey, Job is known as Eyüp, and he is supposed to have lived in Şanlıurfa.
Necip Fazıl Kısakürek died on 25 May 1983 in his house at Erenköy after an illness that "lasted long but did not impair his intellectual activity and writing" and was buried in the graveyard at the Eyüp Cemetery on the ridge of Eyüp after an eventful funeral.