A Dar al-Muwaqqit (Arabic: دار المؤقت), or muvakkithane in Turkish, is a room or structure accompanying a mosque which was used by the muwaqqit or timekeeper...

noted that many mosques in Istanbul have buildings or rooms called muvakkithanes [tr] ("lodge of the muwaqqit"). Ottoman sultans and other notables built...

and altered so that they were of equal height. A clock building, the Muvakkithane, was built by the Fossatis for use by the muwaqqit (the mosque timekeeper)...

side of the portal mark the presence of interior rooms which housed the muvakkithane (chamber of the timekeeper). The courtyard, measuring around 47 by 57...

(mescit) and place for sema (tevhithâne) at the zawiya of Murad Efendi; a muvakkithane at the Koca Mustafa Paşa Mosque; a park (mesire) and fountain in the...

Emetullah Râbi'a Gülnûş Sultan, a courtyard shadirvan (fountain), a muvakkithane (clock tower) and offices. The building is typical of the Classical Ottoman...

(charitable complex) that also included a mektep (primary school), a muvakkithane (timekeeper's house), a fountain and a hamam (bathhouse). More innovative...

muwaqqit he likely taught astronomy in the muwaqqit's institutions (muvakkithanes) of these mosques, and that Turkish was the language of instruction...

of the nineteenth century and were used as textbooks in madrasa and muvakkithanes (offices of the muwaqqits). Fazlıoğlu characterised his works by their...