Beşir Ağa Mosque
- Changes the building has undergone since its construction
- It fell into disrepair and ruin towards the end of the Ottoman Empire.
- It was revived after a comprehensive repair between 1940 and 1944. During this repair, the outer surfaces of the upper floor were plastered and painted with red whitewash, some windows were renewed, and a wooden ceiling was built.
- Prominent features of the mosque
- It was built as an elevated structure on a high basement, with a richly decorated marble mihrab in the Baroque style; it has a rectangular plan.
- It has two rows of windows on its four facades, three rows of spiked eaves and a lead-covered roof. Some of the round-arched windows were renewed with pointed arches during the last restoration.
- The mosque’s unique minaret has a brick body resting on a stone console and a stone balcony; around the closed balcony there are small baroque arched windows through which sound is emitted.
- There used to be a small bathhouse next to the mosque; its ruins were removed during the 1940-1944 restorations.
