Özet:

According to the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, “Life, freedom and personal security are the right of every person” and “the rights of persons with disabilities are the same personal and political rights as other persons.” In accordance with Article 12 of the Constitution, “Everyone has untouchable, untransferable, unnecessary fundamental rights and freedoms related to his personality,” every person with disabilities or without disabilities has the right to life. The structured environment, the building interior shows a chain building up to the urban outer spaces and even the natural parts surrounding the city. The functioning of any type of space within this structure depends on the design for its users as well as on its accessibility, availability and habitability. From here to the way in this study, it is intended to analyze the possibilities of worship by identifying the quality of life, the ease of use and the difficulty of internal and external worship spaces in the framework of the concept of wheelchair users living in Turkey and the EU candidate country. In accordance with this objective, Istanbul, which is the cultural capital of Europe, has been selected as the area work and survey has been implemented to disabled individuals living in the city. In the study, the study of the mosques, churches, synagogues and other places of worship has assessed how wheelchair users can fulfill their worship freedoms in what conditions and possibilities. According to the outer space assessments of the transportation to the worship halls, many environmental arrangements such as ground differences, elevations, upper passes and roads have been found to be obstacles that limit the movement and maneuver of wheelchair and even make it impossible. According to the interior assessments, wheelchair maneuveres are not considered, a mosque and church have made a very limited number of adaptations, but generally wheelchair users have limited freedoms of movement.