Social Life in the Desolate Social Surroundings of İstanbul Suriçi at Night: A Qualitative Research on the Families Living in the Mosque Lodgments

• Main Author: Hatice GÖKCE
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Adem Yavuz Sonmez 2018-07-01
• Series: Alınteri sosyal bilimler dergisi
• Subjects: becoming desolated; spatial transformation; demographic disparity
• Online Access: https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/514496

Unfortunately, the district we call "Suriçi" from the historical city centers of Istanbul has gone through a great and radical change of social fabric, demographic structure and function. In this respect, the gap between the nighttime and daytime demographic structure or the differentiation of the population composition; especially in terms of the mosque officials and families who have to live in this district at night, has created a social life outside of what we noticed. In this context, in-depth interviews were conducted with attendees living in the mosque lodgings of Beyazıt district in the desolate area of the city, and the results of the content analysis were interpreted. With a population passing through and a daytime workplace, Suriçiwhich is used as hotel by the tourists at night becoming deserted, of which type of housing in the study of religion officials and families of the mosques who are forced to reside in the walls of the residential population that has rapidly dissipated from the social life of a healthy neighborhood or neighbors has been examined.