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Huge mosque (capacity 5500) built in the 1980s in traditional style with four minarets, and two more were added in the 2010s. It's named for Miqdad ibn Aswad, a warrior companion of the Prophet Mohamed who grew to be similarly huge.
Muğdat Mosque is a mosque in Mersin, Turkey. It is named after Miqdad ibn Aswad, one of the early Muslims.
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A tell or mound, the heaped-up ruins of 23 layers of occupation from 6300 BC in Neolithic times to about 200 AD. When excavated in the 1930s it was out in the countryside but it's now surrounded by the suburb of Toroslar.
So where didn't he stay? - all over Turkey are mansion museums commemorating Atatürk's legacy. This seven-room villa was built in 1897 for H Christman, the German consul. It was assigned to Atatürk and his wife when they visited town for 11 days in 1925. Its rooms have original furnishings.
Ulu Cami
First built in 1898 as "New Mosque", it was re-done in the 1970s in a bleak modern style. Admire it to understand why Turkey now insists that modern mosques (such as Muğdat, below) adhere to trad Ottoman designs.
Latin Italyan Katolik Kilisesi
Most Christians in Turkey in the 19th century were Greek Orthodox, but this RC church was built in 1855 for Maronite and Syrian Christians fleeing the Levant. It's in Italianate style and remains active.