The Çarşamba Market and the Fatih Camii

The word Çarşamba is Turkish for “Wednesday”, and also the name of a neighborhood in Istanbul. Now, what do you suspect might be the best day to visit this neighborhood? You get one guess!

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Held since Byzantine times, the Wednesday Market (Çarşamba Pazarı) was already woven so immutably into the neighborhood’s fabric, that the conquering Turks just named the entire neighborhood after it. Today, Çarşamba is a very devout section of Istanbul. The market occupies the narrow streets surrounding the...