imaret

imaret puhekieltä An Ottoman soup kitchen built between the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries, often part of a larger complex or waqf.
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Ytldtnm Bayezid had located his imaret in the opposite direction, some two kilometers to the east of the city. Mehmed I chose a site closer to the center, between the imarets of Orhan Gazi and Ytldtnm Bayezid.

It was originally built as a zaviye, or hostel, for members of the Ahi Brotherhood of Virtue; later it became an imaret, serving free food to the poor of Iznik.

He lived in an elegant stone house, a part of the Imaret of Haseki Sultan.