İmaret Mosque
- Changes After Construction:
- The current structure was built in the 19th century.
- A wooden staircase leads to the three-story women’s gallery from the right of the narthex.
- The main prayer area has a square plan and is separated from the narthex by a wide arched passage.
- Prominent Features:
- It is located between bazaars and shops, which is why it is thought to be called İmaret (name used for public soup kitchens in the Ottoman Empire) Mosque.
- It is entered from under an eave supported by two wooden columns.
- There is a window on both sides of the door and the right and left walls of the narthex.
- There are two windows on the mihrab wall.
- There is the Zeynep Dudu Fountain in the mosque courtyard, but the mosque does not have an inscription.
- It was built with the “Bursa style” or “inverted T-plan” mosque architecture, specific to the early period of the Ottoman Empire. This type of structure is also called the “zaviyeli cami” (a mosque with a zawiya).
