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Fethiye Mosque or Theotokos Pamakaristos Monastery is a mosque located in Çarşamba district of Fatih district of Istanbul. In fact, it was built as a church by Mihail Glabas Tarkaniotes, one of the Byzantine notables, in the late 13th century.
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