MARMARA ÜNİVERSİTESİ PENDİK EĞİTİM VE ARAŞTIRMA HASTANESİ

The Carpet Museum, which is affiliated with the General Directorate of Foundations, is located in Sultan Ahmet Mosque Hünkar Kasrı in Istanbul. The building is the first example of the sultan's pavilions, designed as a structure where the Sultan could sit, rest and chat before or after prayer. Hünkar Pavilion, which was built together with the Sultan Ahmet Mosque, was built by Sultan Ahmet I between 1609 and 1617. Its architect is Sedefkâr Mehmet Ağa. The pavilion, which has survived to the present day with various repairs, has lost many of its original details and underwent its last major repair after the fire in 1949. It is learned from the list of items purchased in the construction book that the pavilion, whose original roof and decorations have been destroyed, was furnished with valuable fabrics, rugs and carpets. The carpet museum (Sultan Ahmet Mosque Hünkâr Kasrı) consists of two floors, with an entrance corridor on the lower floor, an exit ramp to the upper floor, and three rooms on the upper floor. Large-sized carpets are exhibited in the entrance hall and ramp on the lower floor, and small-sized carpets are exhibited in the rooms on the upper floor. It is the only museum in Turkey where only carpets are exhibited. The museum collection was created by collecting carpets of high historical and artistic value that have been donated to mosques in line with an old Islamic tradition for centuries.

There are 448 carpets in the carpet museum. 62 carpets are exhibited in rotation. Very rare carpets are exhibited in the museum, which contains original Turkish carpets. The earliest dated carpet in the museum, which has a very rich collection, is from XIV. It is a carpet from the period of the principalities in the 19th century. Among the exhibited carpets, XV. century early Ottoman Period carpets, XVI. And in the XVII. century classical period carpets (Uşak carpets, Bergama, Konya and Kula Carpets) XVIII. century Kazakh carpet, XVI. century Persian carpets, Caucasian carpets, Turkmen carpets, XIX. century Yağcıbedir Prayer Rug. XIX. The rarest examples of prayer rugs from the Kula, Gördes, Konya, Ladik and Milas regions of the 19th century are exhibited. The museum is closed to visitors due to restoration.