Category Mosques

YEREBATAN USKUBI IBRAHIM AGA MOSQUE

The mosque was built for Mehmet Han who was the “head accompanier” (Şatırcıbaşı) of Fatih Sultan Mehmet in the year 1465. It was later renewed for Uskubi (of Skopje) Ibrahim Aga in 1491. For this reason, the mosque is also…

HACI BESİR AGA SOCIAL COMPLEX

The constructer of the social complex was Hacı Besir Aga who was Darussaadeaga taking charge in the eras of Ahmed III and Mahmud I. the complex was constructed in the middle of 18th century (between 1744-1745). It was understood from…

Nalllı Masjid – (VILAYET MOSQUE)

Although the Mosque, which belongs to the period of Fatih Sultan Mehmet, is called the Babrali Masjid or the Imam Ali Masjid in relation to its bani, it is known as the Nalli Masjid among the people due to the…

HOBYAR MOSQUE

It was built for Hoca Hobyar in the year 1473. But since it is ruined in time it was rebuilt in square design by Mimar Vedat Bey when the New Post Office was built. The mosque with a single dome…

KARASEYH MOSQUE

It is not known on whose side the mosque, which was built in the 15th century, was built. However, it is among the rumors that the mosque took its name from Abdullah Efendi, nicknamed Kara Sheikh, who lived in the…

Grand Mosque

The fourth Sultan Yıldırım Bayazid built it. Sultan Şeyhül İslam Molla Fenari read the first sermon at the opening ceremony where Emir Sultan was also present and Hamidüddin from Aksaray called Somuncu Baba and made the first sermon. Shortly after…

NEW BEZZAZ MOSQUE

This mosque was built by a merchant called Bezzazzade Ahmet, and by-named İbn-i Bazergan, during the reign of Mehmed the Conqueror (1451-1481). Although being also known as ”Reyhan mosque” situated in the neighbourhood of the same name, the orginal ”Reyhan”…

MURAT I. MOSQUE AND MADRASAH

The construction of the mosque, which was built by Sultan Murad I, began in 1363. The building, which is one of the inverted ‘T’ planned mosques of Turkish Islamic Architecture, has two floors. The two-storey portico application, the lower floor…

THE COMPLEX OF BAYAZID II.

It is by the River Tunca. It is a complex composed of the mosque, medical school, a hostel, hospital, recovering house, candle house, bathhouse, and a mill. However, the bathhouse and the mill were ruined. The Architect Hayrettin built the…

The Old Mosque

The construction of the mosque was started in 1403 by Emir Suleyman Çelebi. It was completed in 1414 under Çelebi Sultan Mehmet. The architect is Haji Aladdin of Konya and the master is Omer ibn Ibrahim. This mosque was named…

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