Istanbul is the blessed place where our Beloved Prophet (PBUH) gave the good news that it will be conquered by Muslims. My Almighty Lord created this land with exceptional beauties, especially the Bosphorus, and gave it to the trustee of the Muslims in 1453. Something has happened to Istanbul recently. Skyscrapers distorted the historical silhouette. Just behind the Dolmabahçe Palace and the mosque, there is a giant bogey building like a ghoul… This monstrous building was one, then ten, then twenty, later it became a road, and the lastly the number of which was uncertain.
WHERE DID THE BIG KÂ'ABA CLOTH GO IN THE YENI VALIDE MOSQUE?
I decided to perform the afternoon prayer at the Yeni Valide Mosque (Valide-i Cedid Mosque) in Üsküdar, I looked, and the place of the cloth of the great Ka'aba covering the wall of the mosque facing the qibla is empty. There were security guards in the mosque, I asked. “It was stolen,” he said. Security guards were sent after it was stolen, and they were guarding the empty frame. On this time, I went to the mosque again, I looked, they removed the frame where the Ka'aba cover was. Security guards too... It will probably because there is nothing left to be stolen in the mosque...
In the Valide-i Cedid Mosque, which was built by Sultan III. Ahmet for his mother and is among the symbolic works of the the 18th century period, the place of (probably contemporary with the mosque) Ka'aba cloth inside the large panel to the left of the mihrab is empty.
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