Petrovaradin, Tekke Kilisesi

To the southeast of the Petrovaradin Fortress, on a dominant hill overlooking the Danube, there was an old lodge whose name we do not know. Evliya Çelebi describes the lower suburb of Varadin Castle without specifying the names of the 752 KİLİSEYE ÇEVRİLEN TÜRK ESERLERİII. CİLT buildings: “… there are mosques and masjids, 3 madrasahs, 4 primary schools for beloved children, a dervish lodge of abdal dervishes, a Turkish bath and a merchant's inn.” According to the information we learned from the plate hanging on the wall of this lodge, which was converted into a church. There was a wooden minaret mosque built in the Turkish period (1526-1687) on the site of the church. During the Austrian occupation that started in 1687, this lodge was dedicated to the Virgin Mary by the Jesuits and converted into a church. The altar and bell tower at the entrance were added to the church, which was repaired in 1754 and 1759. In 1881, according to the project of the architect Hermann Bolle, the church was repaired again in exchange for 17000 Gulden (Forint); altars and statues were placed, and new bells were installed. It is seen from the satellite images of the existing church that it is in the direction of qibla with 138,920. Given the apse in the south of the building and the spaces in the north were added later; we think that the hipped roof section, which does not have a circular luminous lantern on its roof, is the original lodge building (probably a mosque).