Breakdown of Eski pasajın tavanında muhteşem vitray pencereler var.
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-ın is the genitive suffix in Turkish. When you want to express “of something” (possession), the owner noun takes a genitive ending.
• pasaj → pasaj + ın = pasajın (“of the passage”)
The word tavan (“ceiling”) carries:
1) -ı (3rd-person singular possessive) → tavanı = “its ceiling”
2) -nda (locative) → tavanında = “on its ceiling”
So Eski pasajın tavanında literally means “on the old passage’s ceiling.”
var is the existential verb meaning “there is / there are.” In Turkish existential sentences the pattern is:
(locative) + (subject) + var/yok.
Here, muhteşem vitray pencereler is the subject, and var tells you that they exist.