SARAYDAN ÇIKMADAN YAPILAN FETİH
Cihangir Cami
Osmanlı Hanedanı, nedense
İstanbul’un Beyoğlu bölgesinde uzun yıllar boyu yapısal bir etkinlik
göstermemiştir. Beyoğlu her zaman ötekidir. Orası bambaşka bir topraktır.
İstanbul sınırları içerisinde başka bir kültür… Başka insanlar ve başka
mekanlara ait bir yer…
Bu yabancı topraklara, İlk kez
Kanuni Sultan Süleyman ve Hürrem Sultan, en küçük oğulları Cihangir’in
ölümünden sonra, Mimar Sinan’a Fındıklı yamaçlarında tek minareli küçücük bir
cami yaptırırlar. Bu küçük camiye ve daha sonra da semte adını veren Cihangir,
bedensel engelli oluşuyla, saltanat dünyasında önceden kaderi belirlenmişler
arasında yer alır. O diğer erkek kardeşlerinden tamamen farklı bir hayat sürmek
zorunda kalır. Babasıyla ava, savaşa giden; Sancak’a çıkan, özel eğitimler alan
bir padişah adayı değil, annesiyle sarayda kalmaya mahkum bir şehzadedir.
Kanuni Sultan Süleyman’ın “halk içinde muteber bir
nesne yok devlet gibi; olmaya devlet cihân da bir nefes sıhhât gibi” diye
başlayan gazelini oğlu Cihangir için yazdığı söylenir.
Şair Ruhlu Bir Şehzade
Cihangir, diğer
şehzadelere kıyasla çok hassas ve şair ruhlu bir şehzadedir. Günler boyunca
yapacak bir şey bulamadığı harem dünyasında, sarayın dört duvarı içinde
yalnızlığını her an hissederek yaşar. Belki de bu derin yalnızlığı, Kanuni
Sultan Süleyman’ın Mahidevran Sultan’dan olma en büyük oğlu Mustafa’nın gösterdiği
yakınlık ve ilgiye karşılık ona ölümüne derinden bağlanmasına sebep olmuştur.
Öyle ki, Nahcıvan
Seferi’ne çıkan üvey ağabeyi Mustafa’nın idam haberini aldığında, yemeden
içmeden kesilerek hastalanır. Bir ay gibi kısa bir zamanda ağabeyinin yanına,
ebediyet diyarına gider. Ruhları birleşse de naaşları farklı yerlere gömülür bu
iki kardeşin. Kanuni Sultan küçük oğlunun, on sene önce çiçek hastalığından kaybettiği
gözde şehzadesi Mehmet’in yanına gömülmesini isterken, öteki oğlunun naşını,
İstanbul’dan sürgün edercesine, annesinin ikamet ettiği Bursa’ya gönderir
Yitirdiğimiz ünlü
siyaset adamı Bülent Ecevit yazdığı bir şiirde, Şehzade Mustafa’nın ağzından
Şehzade Cihangir’e seslenerek, iki şehzadenin birbirlerine duyduğu sevgiyi şu
dizelerle anlatır.
İki
büyük suçumuz var
Seninle
benim Cihangir
Biri
sevmek biri sevilmek
Bunca
büyük suçlarla padişah olunmaz
Biz
insanız Cihangir
Bizden
tahtlara han olmaz
Sıcağına
bak yüreğimizin
Aktıkça
gözlerden gözlere
Nasıl
eritir birbirini
Tahtların
karlı doruğunda
Şehzade Mustafa ve Şehzade
Cihangir’in aralarında yakaladıkları yakınlık aslında bir imparatorluk için
sıra dışı bir örneği teşkil eder. Çünkü devletin bekası için taht duygusallığa
izin veremez…
Yalnızlık İçinde Geçen Kısa Bir Ömrün Sembolü
Şehzade Cihangir’in
vefatından sonra, Kanuni Sultan Süleyman, gözde şehzadesi, eşi ve kızı için
yaptırdığı devasa yapıların yanında devede kulak denilebilecek, onun anısına küçücük
bir cami inşa eder. Cihangir’in bütün bir vaktini geçirdiği çardakta, her gün
gördüğü bir yer için yapılan ufak bir cami…
Cami kurulduğundan
itibaren beş kez büyük yangın geçirdiğinden ilk yapısı hakkında belli başlı
çizimler dışında bir kaynak yok. 1580 tarihli bir çizimden anlaşıldığına göre
tek minareli, ahşap çatılı olduğu anlaşılıyor.
Yapıldığı dönemde korulukların
içinde, bulunduğu yamaçtan denize atlamaya her an istek duyar gibi duran, adını
taşıdığı şehzade kadar yalnız, bulunduğu semtte de Cihangir’in saraydaki hali gibi
öteki… Fındıklı’dan dik bir merdivenle çıkılan bu caminin yanına altmış yıl sonra
bir Halveti tekkesi kurulur. Önce bu tekke Cihangir Tekkesi olarak bilinmeye
başlar ve Cihangir Tevhidi olarak ünlenen bir zikir doğar bu tekkede de.
Dillerden Düşmeyen Semt
Cami zamanla çevrede
kurulan yerleşmelerin merkezi haline geldiğinden semtin adı da Cihangir olur.
Cihangir bu sayede pek çok şehzadenin yapamadığını anısına kurulan o küçücük
camiyle hiçbir hanedan mensubunun başlarda tenezzül edip adına bir yapı inşa
ettirmediği toprakları ismiyle fetheder. Gerçekten bu mahalle şehzadenin o ince
şair ruhuna o kadar uygundur ki; yüz yıllar sonra ünlü şairlerden Yahya Kemal
Beyatlı “Git bu mevsimde, gurup vakti, Cihangir’den bak! Bir zaman
kendini karşındaki rüyaya bırak!” dizeleriyle başlayan
Hayal Şehir adlı şiirinde, bu semtin manzarasının büyüleyiciliğini anlatır.
Aslında günümüzde de
etrafında yükselen sıra sıra apartmanların arasında kare hacmi, iki minareden
oluşan yalın mimarisiyle yine yalnız ve soyutlanmış görünür cami. Ama
insanların dilinde artık Cihangir var; Cihangir’e gidiyoruz diyorlar, yemeye,
eğlenmeye ya da bir bardak çay içmeye; 22 sene süren bir yalnız yaşamı
andıklarının farkında olmasalar da, Cihangir adını öğretmeyi başardı küçücük
camisiyle İstanbullulara…
Conquest Without Leaving The Palace
The Ottoman Dynasty undertook practically hardly any structural activity in İstanbul’s Beyoğlu district for many years after conquering the city. Beyoğlu was always beyond the realm, a totally different land, another culture within İstanbul’s borders. A place belonging to other people and other venues…
The first time a structure went up in these foreigner lands came when Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent and his wife Hürrem Sultan commissioned the architect Mimar Sinan to build a small mosque with a single minaret on the slopes of Fındıklı after the death of their youngest son, Cihangir. With his physical handicap, Cihangir, whose name was first given to this small mosque, and later to the surrounding neighborhood, was amongst those whose fate in the sultanate realm was determined beforehand. He had to lead a totally different life from that of his other brothers. He wasn’t a sultan candidate who went hunting or to war with his father, who received private education, but a crown prince who was condemned to remain in the palace with his mother. It is said that Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent penned a poem for his son Cihangir that began thusly, “There is no greater object amongst people than the state; nor a state in the world like a healthy
breath.”
A Crown Prince with a Poetic Soul
Compared with the other crown princes, Cihangir had a more sensitive and poetic soul. Not finding anything to do for days on end, he felt lonely every moment within the four walls of the palace in the harem realm. Perhaps it was this deep loneliness that was the reason, The affinity and care shown by his step-brother Mustafa, who was Sultan Süleyman’s eldest son by his first wife, Mahidevran, was the reason for the deep connection to his death.
Such was the case that when he learned word of the death sentence of his step-brother Mustafa, who joined the Nahcıvan Expedition, he went on a hunger strike. Within a month, he joined his brother in paradise. Though the souls of these two brothers merged together, their bodies were buried in different places. While Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent wished his small son to be buried next to his favorite crown prince, Mehmet, who died of measles 10 years before, he sent the body of the other son to Bursa, where his mother was living in exile.
In a poem written by the famous political statesman, the late-Bülent Ecevit, he tells of the love the two crown princes had for each other, address Crown Prince Cihangir from the mouth of Crown Prince Mustafa.
We are guilty of two crimes
You & me, Cihangir
One is to love, the other is to be loved
One cannot become the sultan after committing such big crimes
We are people, Cihangir
Neither of us can ascend to the throne as khan.
Look at the warmth of our hearts
Flowing from eyes to eyes
How does it melt one another
On the snowy peak of their thrones
The affinity that Crown Prince Mustafa and Crown Prince Cihangir had for each other constitutes an extraordinary event for the empire. Because the state’s permanence did not allow throne sensitivities…
The Symbol of a Brief Life Spent in Loneliness
In addition to the giant structures he commissioned to be built in honor of his favorite crown prince, his wife and daughter, Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent also had a tiny mosque constructed for Crown Prince Cihangir after his passing. A small mosque erected for all the time that Cihangir spent in the palace gazebo staring out at some place out yonder…
Fire struck the mosque five times since it was first built, whereas there are no sources regarding its initial structure other than some fundamental drawings. According to a drawing made in 1580, it is understood the mosque had a wooden rook and had a single minaret.
Accessed via a steep staircase leading up from Fındıklı, a Halveti Lodge was established next to the mosque 60 years later. At first, this lodge was known as the ‘Cihangir Lodge’ as well as the Cihangir Joinder, which became a famous rememberance.
The District Constantly on Everyone’s Minds
The district’s name became Cihangir when the settlements which were founded in the vicinity of the mosque over time, gradually turned into a community center. Actually, this neighborhood was so suitable to the elegant poetic spirit of the crown prince that, centuries later, the famous poet, Yahya Kemal Beyatlı exclaimed, “Go in this season with a group of friends and look from Cihangir! For once, leave yourself in the dream facing yourself!” This charm of the view of this neighborhood is conveyed in a poem of his called Hayal Şehir (Dream City).
Nowadays, with its plain architecture comprised of two minarets, the square-planned mosque still looks forlorn and isolated amidst the rows of apartments rising all around it. Nowadays, people have the neighborhood constantly on their minds, saying, “We’re going to Cihangir to drink a glass of tea, to eat or to have fun.” Though they may not aware that they recalled a lonely life that lasted 22 years, they succeeded in teaching the name Cihangir to the citizens of İstanbul with this cozy little mosque…
The Ottoman Dynasty undertook practically hardly any structural activity in İstanbul’s Beyoğlu district for many years after conquering the city. Beyoğlu was always beyond the realm, a totally different land, another culture within İstanbul’s borders. A place belonging to other people and other venues…
The first time a structure went up in these foreigner lands came when Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent and his wife Hürrem Sultan commissioned the architect Mimar Sinan to build a small mosque with a single minaret on the slopes of Fındıklı after the death of their youngest son, Cihangir. With his physical handicap, Cihangir, whose name was first given to this small mosque, and later to the surrounding neighborhood, was amongst those whose fate in the sultanate realm was determined beforehand. He had to lead a totally different life from that of his other brothers. He wasn’t a sultan candidate who went hunting or to war with his father, who received private education, but a crown prince who was condemned to remain in the palace with his mother. It is said that Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent penned a poem for his son Cihangir that began thusly, “There is no greater object amongst people than the state; nor a state in the world like a healthy
breath.”
A Crown Prince with a Poetic Soul
Compared with the other crown princes, Cihangir had a more sensitive and poetic soul. Not finding anything to do for days on end, he felt lonely every moment within the four walls of the palace in the harem realm. Perhaps it was this deep loneliness that was the reason, The affinity and care shown by his step-brother Mustafa, who was Sultan Süleyman’s eldest son by his first wife, Mahidevran, was the reason for the deep connection to his death.
Such was the case that when he learned word of the death sentence of his step-brother Mustafa, who joined the Nahcıvan Expedition, he went on a hunger strike. Within a month, he joined his brother in paradise. Though the souls of these two brothers merged together, their bodies were buried in different places. While Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent wished his small son to be buried next to his favorite crown prince, Mehmet, who died of measles 10 years before, he sent the body of the other son to Bursa, where his mother was living in exile.
In a poem written by the famous political statesman, the late-Bülent Ecevit, he tells of the love the two crown princes had for each other, address Crown Prince Cihangir from the mouth of Crown Prince Mustafa.
We are guilty of two crimes
You & me, Cihangir
One is to love, the other is to be loved
One cannot become the sultan after committing such big crimes
We are people, Cihangir
Neither of us can ascend to the throne as khan.
Look at the warmth of our hearts
Flowing from eyes to eyes
How does it melt one another
On the snowy peak of their thrones
The affinity that Crown Prince Mustafa and Crown Prince Cihangir had for each other constitutes an extraordinary event for the empire. Because the state’s permanence did not allow throne sensitivities…
The Symbol of a Brief Life Spent in Loneliness
In addition to the giant structures he commissioned to be built in honor of his favorite crown prince, his wife and daughter, Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent also had a tiny mosque constructed for Crown Prince Cihangir after his passing. A small mosque erected for all the time that Cihangir spent in the palace gazebo staring out at some place out yonder…
Fire struck the mosque five times since it was first built, whereas there are no sources regarding its initial structure other than some fundamental drawings. According to a drawing made in 1580, it is understood the mosque had a wooden rook and had a single minaret.
Accessed via a steep staircase leading up from Fındıklı, a Halveti Lodge was established next to the mosque 60 years later. At first, this lodge was known as the ‘Cihangir Lodge’ as well as the Cihangir Joinder, which became a famous rememberance.
The District Constantly on Everyone’s Minds
The district’s name became Cihangir when the settlements which were founded in the vicinity of the mosque over time, gradually turned into a community center. Actually, this neighborhood was so suitable to the elegant poetic spirit of the crown prince that, centuries later, the famous poet, Yahya Kemal Beyatlı exclaimed, “Go in this season with a group of friends and look from Cihangir! For once, leave yourself in the dream facing yourself!” This charm of the view of this neighborhood is conveyed in a poem of his called Hayal Şehir (Dream City).
Nowadays, with its plain architecture comprised of two minarets, the square-planned mosque still looks forlorn and isolated amidst the rows of apartments rising all around it. Nowadays, people have the neighborhood constantly on their minds, saying, “We’re going to Cihangir to drink a glass of tea, to eat or to have fun.” Though they may not aware that they recalled a lonely life that lasted 22 years, they succeeded in teaching the name Cihangir to the citizens of İstanbul with this cozy little mosque…
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