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Liberation mosque

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  • Damage in Kurtuluş Mosque after the 7.8 magnitude earthquake in Turkey.jpg

    Photo by Orhan Erkılıç (VOA) via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

  • Damage in Kurtuluş Mosque after the 7.8 magnitude earthquake in Türkiye 2.jpg

    Photo by Orhan Erkılıç (VOA) via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

  • Damage in Kurtuluş Mosque after the 7.8 magnitude earthquake in Türkiye.jpg

    Photo by Orhan Erkılıç (VOA) via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

  • Gaziantep armenian church.jpg

    Photo by Unknown, taken in 1920 via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

  • Gaziantep Kurtuluş Cami 0426.jpg

    Photo by Dosseman via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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    Photo by Dosseman via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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    Photo by Dosseman via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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    Photo by Dosseman via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Background

Liberation Mosque (Turkish: Kurtuluş Camii), formerly the St. Mary's Cathedral or Holy Mother of God Church (Armenian: Սուրբ Աստուածածին Եկեղեցի, romanized: Surp Asdvazdadzin Egeghetsʿi), is located in the Tepebaşı district of Şahinbey, Gaziantep, Turkey. Initially built as an Armenian Apostolic church, it was converted into a stable after the Armenian genocide and later into a jail. Sarkis Balyan, the Ottoman-Armenian architect serving Sultan Abdul Hamid II, designed the church. The building was constructed between 1892 and 1893, undertaken by the stonemason Sarkis Taşçıyan.

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Occupancy

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Year opened

1892

Operational

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Facility profile

Operator

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Population held

Mixed/unknown

Opened

1892

Region

Gaziantep Province

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Death-row facility

No

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World Prisons. (2026). Liberation mosque. Retrieved October 20, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/liberation-mosque
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"Liberation mosque." World Prisons. Accessed October 20, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/liberation-mosque.
BibTeX
@misc{worldprisons-liberation-mosque,
  author = {{World Prisons}},
  title = {Liberation mosque},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://worldprisons.com/prisons/liberation-mosque},
  urldate = {2026-10-20}
}