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What is an imaret?

What is an imaret? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (historical or architecture) An Ottoman soup kitchen built between the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries, often part of a larger complex or waqf.
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The imaret is on the eastern side, while the mosque is on the south side.
He lived in an elegant stone house, a part of the Imaret of Haseki Sultan.
Some researchers claim that the building was a soup-kitchen, since the name imaret means an institution for distributing food to the poor.

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