Islamic religious school in Dobruja.
1903.
Exhibition Muslim Seminary from Medgidia (2016), made by the Consulate General of the Republic of Turkey in Constanța, Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities Cluj Napoca, Constanţa County Directorate of National Archives, “Ovidius” University of Constanța, Faculty of History and Political Science, architect Radu Cornescu.
Group of students from a Turkish school, Tulcea.
The end of the 19th century, the beginning of the 20th century.
Owner: Democratic Union of Turkish-Muslim Tatars of Romania, Bucharest branch
Exhibition Turks and Tatars from Dobruja. Memories…, Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities (2014).
Turkish school.
The end of the 19th century, the beginning of the 20th century.
Exhibition Muslim Seminary from Medgidia (2016), made by the Consulate General of the Republic of Turkey in Constanța, Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities Cluj Napoca, Constanţa County Directorate of National Archives, “Ovidius” University of Constanța, Faculty of History and Political Science, architect Radu Cornescu.
Teachers from Dobrich, Constanța, Medgidia.
Teachers from Dobrich, Constanța, Medgidia, a few years before 1940, in the Chancellery of the General School in Dobrich (Bazargic), Cadrilater.
Owner: Emin Emel.
The end of the 19th century, the beginning of the 20th century
Exhibition Turks and Tatars from Dobruja. Memories…, Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities (2014).
The building of the former Muslim Seminary in Babadag.
The building of the former Muslim Seminary in Babadag, moved to Medgidia in 1901. The building, known today as Casa Panaghia, that hosts the Oriental Art Exhibition since the 1970s, now a branch of the Museum of Ethnography and Folk Art, Tulcea.
Exhibition Muslim Seminary from Medgidia (2016), made by the Consulate General of the Republic of Turkey in Constanța, Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities Cluj Napoca, Constanţa County Directorate of National Archives, “Ovidius” University of Constanța, Faculty of History and Political Science, architect Radu Cornescu.
Sketch of the building and courtyard of the Muslim Seminary in Medgidia.
1902
Source: ANR, M.C.A. fund, file 210/1902, pp. 27.
Exhibition Muslim Seminary from Medgidia (2016), made by the Consulate General of the Republic of Turkey in Constanța, Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities Cluj Napoca, Constanţa County Directorate of National Archives, “Ovidius” University of Constanța, Faculty of History and Political Science, architect Radu Cornescu.
The inauguration ceremony of the ``Carol I Mosque``.
Inauguration ceremony of the “Carol I Mosque”, in the presence of King Carol I and Queen Elizabeth, Constanța
May 31, 1913
Owner: Güner Akmolla
Exhibition Turks and Tatars from Dobruja. Memories…, Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities (2014).
Meeting of the Muftis of the Muslim Cult.
Meeting of the Muftis of the Muslim Cult.
(In 1878, the Muslim Cult in Romania was organized into two muftiates, one for each of the two counties, Constanța and Tulcea. After 1913, when South Dobruja became part of Romanian, two more muftiates were established in Durostor counties and Caliacra. Between the Two Wars, for several years, there was a Baș-Muftiat who had to coordinate the other four. In 1943, it was decided to reorganize these in a single muftiat based in Constanța.
The end of the 19th century, the beginning of the 20th century.
Owner: Democratic Union of Turkish-Muslim Tatars of Romania, Bucharest branch
Exhibition Turks and Tatars from Dobruja. Memories…, Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities (2014).
Mufti from Tulcea.
Early twentieth century.
Owner: Democratic Union of Turkish-Muslim Tatars of Romania, Bucharest branch.
Exhibition Turks and Tatars from Dobruja. Memories…, Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities (2014).
Graduates of the Muslim Seminary in Medgidia.
The end of the 19th century, the beginning of the 20th century.
Exhibition Muslim Seminary from Medgidia (2016), made by the Consulate General of the Republic of Turkey in Constanța, Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities Cluj Napoca, Constanţa County Directorate of National Archives, “Ovidius” University of Constanța, Faculty of History and Political Science, architect Radu Cornescu.
Group of imams, graduates of the Muslim Seminary in Medgidia.
Group of imams, graduates of the Muslim Seminary in Medgidia.
The end of the 19th century, the beginning of the 20th century.
Owner: Democratic Union of Turkish-Muslim Tatars of Romania, Bucharest branch.
Exhibition Turks and Tatars from Dobruja. Memories…, Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities (2014).
Graduates and teachers of the Muslim Seminary.
1931.
Owner: Metin Omer
Exhibition Muslim Seminary from Medgidia (2016), made by the Consulate General of the Republic of Turkey in Constanța, Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities Cluj Napoca, Constanţa County Directorate of National Archives, “Ovidius” University of Constanța, Faculty of History and Political Science, architect Radu Cornescu.
Graduates of the Muslim Seminary.
1936.
Owner: Metin Omer.
Exhibition Muslim Seminary from Medgidia (2016), made by the Consulate General of the Republic of Turkey in Constanța, Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities Cluj Napoca, Constanţa County Directorate of National Archives, “Ovidius” University of Constanța, Faculty of History and Political Science, architect Radu Cornescu.
Students and teachers of the Muslim Seminary.
Students and teachers of the Muslim Seminary, photo taken on May 19, on the occasion of the Commemoration of Atatürk
1941
Owner: Metin Omer
Exhibition Muslim Seminary from Medgidia (2016), made by the Consulate General of the Republic of Turkey in Constanța, Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities Cluj Napoca, Constanţa County Directorate of National Archives, “Ovidius” University of Constanța, Faculty of History and Political Science, architect Radu Cornescu.
Etem Curt-Mola (1884-1963).
Etem Curt-Mola (1884-1963), Mufti of Tulcea County, and from 1937, Baș-Mufti (supreme religious leader of the Muslims in Romania), until the abolition of Baș-Muftiat in 1943. Photo taken in Tulcea.
April 4, 1940.
Owner: Curt-Mola Aidun.
Students and teachers of the Muslim Seminary, on the occasion of the Commemoration of Atatürk.
1941.
Owner: Metin Omer
Exhibition Muslim Seminary from Medgidia (2016), made by the Consulate General of the Republic of Turkey in Constanța, Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities Cluj Napoca, Constanţa County Directorate of National Archives, “Ovidius” University of Constanța, Faculty of History and Political Science, architect Radu Cornescu.
Inauguration of the building of the ``Mustafa Kemal Atatürk`` High School.
The inauguration of the building of the “Mustafa Kemal Atatürk” High School, in the presence of Süleyman Demirel, the president of the Republic of Turkey at the time, and then-president of Romania, Ion Iliescu.
1995
Owner: Democratic Union of Turkish-Muslim Tatars of Romania, Medgidia branch.
Source: Volume of the Muslim Seminary in Medgidia. Documents and Memory, ISPMN Publishing House, Cluj Napoca, 2016.
Entrance to the ``Kemal Atatürk`` National College, Medgidia.
College entrance. The current name in Romanian and in Turkish, the “Kemal Atatürk” National College from Medgidia, respectively “Kemal Atatürk” Ulusal Koleji, Mecidiye.
Photo: Iulia Hossu (ISPMN).
Source: Volume of the Muslim Seminary in Medgidia. Documents and Memory, Adriana Cupcea, Marin Manuela, Metin Omer (coord.), ISPMN Publishing House, Cluj Napoca, 2016.
Students of the ``Kemal Atatürk`` National College in Medgidia.
2016
Exhibition Muslim Seminary from Medgidia (2016), made by the Consulate General of the Republic of Turkey in Constanța, Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities Cluj Napoca, Constanţa County Directorate of National Archives, “Ovidius” University of Constanța, Faculty of History and Political Science, architect Radu Cornescu.
The current condition of the locker room and the room with moderate temperature of the hammam.
The current condition of the locker room and the room with moderate temperature of the hammam, which, according to the original plan, consist of two separate rooms. The merging of the two rooms into one dates back to the period when the hammam was transformed into a power plant.
Photo: Iulia Hossu (ISPMN).
Source: Volume of the Muslim Seminary in Medgidia. Documents and Memory, Adriana Cupcea, Marin Manuela, Metin Omer (coord.), ISPMN Publishing House, Cluj Napoca, 2016.
Hemispherical vault of the hot water room of the hammam.
Photo: Iulia Hossu (ISPMN)
Source: Volume of the Muslim Seminary in Medgidia. Documents and Memory, Adriana Cupcea, Marin Manuela, Metin Omer (coord.), ISPMN Publishing House, Cluj Napoca, 2016.
Details of the hypocaust (underfloor heating system) in the hemispherical vaulted room.
Details of the hypocaust (underfloor heating system) in the hemispherical vaulted room, which is the main part of the bathroom, where those who frequented it could sit in steam, to wash ritually, in small pools with hot water.
Photo: Iulia Hossu (ISPMN)
Source: Volume of the Muslim Seminary in Medgidia. Documents and Memory, Adriana Cupcea, Marin Manuela, Metin Omer (coord.), ISPMN Publishing House, Cluj Napoca, 2016.
Turkish bath (hammam), partially preserved.
Turkish bath (hammam), partially preserved.
Photo: Iulia Hossu (ISPMN).
Source: Volume of the Muslim Seminary in Medgidia. Documents and Memory, Adriana Cupcea, Marin Manuela, Metin Omer (coord.), ISPMN Publishing House, Cluj Napoca, 2016.
The wall at the northern end of the Seminary courtyard.
The wall at the northern end of the Seminary courtyard.
The wall at the northern end of the Seminary courtyard.
Photo: Iulia Hossu (ISPMN).
Source: Volume of the Muslim Seminary in Medgidia. Documents and Memory, Adriana Cupcea, Marin Manuela, Metin Omer (coord.), ISPMN Publishing House, Cluj Napoca, 2016.
