Malcı Mehmet Paşa Mosque
- Changes after its construction
- The mihrab was added by Malcı Mehmet Efendi.
- It is stated in its inscription that it was converted from a small masjid to a mosque in
1761.
- Prominent features
- It is also known as the “Malcı Mosque”, “Çırağı Mosque” and “Şamdancı Hasan Ağa
Mosque”. - Malcı Mehmed Efendi is buried in the garden of the Primary School, which was built by
Osman Çelebi, the son of Malcı Mehmed Efendi, opposite the mosque. - It is said that Şeyhül-Kurra (Sheikh of the Reciters [of the Quran]) Hafız Mustafa Efendi
worked in this mosque in the 1940s. - The walls are made of masonry, the roof is wooden, and the ceiling of the mosque is
concrete. - The minaret on the right side is made of stone and the balcony railing is made of iron.
- The concrete upper gallery rises on three concrete pillars.
- The mosque, which has a muezzin gallery and a narthex, has a mihrab and a minbar
made of tiles, while the preacher’s pulpit hanging on the wall is made of wood.
