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Dick Osseman | all galleries >> Van pictures - Turkey >> Hüsrev Paşa Mosque > Van 4069 12092012.jpg
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12-Sep-2012 Dick Osseman

Van 4069 12092012.jpg

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The (new) wooden cenotaph sarcophagus inside the Türbe (mausoleum) of Hüsrev Paşa, the Ottoman governor (mid-16th century) of Van and Amida (Diyarbakır).
It is very questionable whether Hüsrev Paşa was ever buried here, since he had Mimar Sinan built a grave monument for him in Istanbul (the ‘Hüsrev Paşa Türbesi’ in the Yenibahçe neighbourhood / Fatih district).

A cenotaph is an "empty tomb" or a monument erected in honour of a person or group of people whose remains are elsewhere. The word derives from the Greek: κενοτάφιον = kenotaphion (kenos, one meaning being "empty", and taphos, "tomb"). In general, a Turkish türbe has two rooms: an upper room where the cenotaph sarcophagus/sarcophagi were placed to be visited by relatives and followers, and a room beneath where the remains of the deceased were buried.

Correspondent: J.M.Criel, Antwerpen.
Sources: Website of ‘filozof.net’ & Wikipedia.

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