Katip Şemseddin Mosque
Changes After Its Construction:
- While it was in ruins in 1982, it was repaired and opened for worship with the support of the community.
Prominent Features:
- Also known as the “Cankurtaran Mosque”, the building built of stone has a flat roof covered with tiles; its interior and exterior walls are covered with cement plaster, and its ceiling is made of wood.
- Its mihrab is marble; the minbar and the preacher’s pulpit are wooden.
- Its ceiling is covered with wood; there are three rectangular windows, one above the other, on the left and right walls.
- Its minaret has been rebuilt from brick with a single balcony, true to the original.
- Its basement is made of stone, and the mosque is accessed by a few steps.
- The narthex, which has an open surrounding, is positioned on 4 wooden pillars, and the roof of the mosque also covers the narthex.
- The graveyard contains the graves of the mosque’s benefactor Katip Şemseddin, İbrahim Agha, Başyamak Halil Agha, and the Aghas of Harem-i Hümayun (Imperial Harem) Hamdullah Agha and Mustafa Agha.
