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02-Jun-2014 Dick Osseman

Istanbul some random shots May 2014 9339.jpg

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This is the tomb of Lohusa Sultan (Maternity Sultan) or Rahime Kadın. A notice indicates she died in 1647 AD, and was supposedly a sultans daughter who married a “Güzel Hoça” (beautiful teacher) and then did not get pregnant. She went on pilgrimage to Mecca and there learned she was pregnant. Returning to Istanbul she died before entering the city, at the spot where her tomb now stands. The hoça would visit her grave and after 4 or 5 months heard the cries of a baby inside the tomb. He found a baby suckling from the “fresh mother” (as the English text reads). The child took the name “meyitzade” (son of a corpse) and became an Ottoman bureaucrat. Women who can’t get a baby started visiting the tomb. It contains three more graves of unknown people.

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