The historic Yeni Camii (New Mosque), situated within the metropolis middle of Türkiye’s southeastern Malatya, was destroyed in an earthquake on Monday that rocked the nation, killed greater than 1,500, left greater than 9,000 residents injured and nearly 3,000 buildings demolished, based on preliminary outcomes.
The mosque, which was restored and opened for worship final 12 months, was affected by the 7.7 magnitude earthquake that occurred at 4:17 a.m. native time within the Pazarcık district of Kahramanmaraş.
Constructed on the location of HacıYusuf Mosque, the New Mosque was destroyed within the earthquake on March 3, 1894, which Malatya known as the “Great Earthquake,” and its reconstruction continued with the assistance of the general public and was ended with contributions of Sultan Abdülhamid II.
In the earthquake that occurred on March 14, 1964, the mosque was severely broken. There have been cracks within the dome and a few of its partitions and the highest stones of the cone fell off. With the restoration work by the General Directorate of Foundations, the mosque was repaired once more, and enormous minarets have been put in.
Meanwhile, in Gaziantep, the place many workplaces within the historic Coppersmiths’ Bazaar have been additionally broken, the continual heavy snowfall makes it troublesome for the rescue groups to work.
In Şanlıurfa, Raziye Tanlap, a instructor, misplaced her life after items of the mosque’s minaret fell on her in the course of the earthquake. Tanlap, who was taken to the hospital by the medical groups, couldn’t be saved regardless of medical intervention.
In a separate incident, a lady was killed when a wall of a mosque collapsed on her in Adana’s Ceyhan district. Ayşe Çiftçier and her daughter Sevinç Çiftçier, who lived in the home on Hürriyet Mahallesi, obtained scared and left their home after the second huge earthquake that passed off in Ceyhan at round 1:30 p.m. While they have been fleeing, a wall of a mosque collapsed, and the duo was trapped underneath its particles. Later, Ayşe Çiftçier’s nephew Ramazan Yıldırım rushed to their help. Yıldırım pulled the daughter out from underneath the rubble, however the mom died of her accidents.
Source: www.dailysabah.com
