Cafer Ağa Mosque
Changes After Its Construction:
- Yayabaşı Cafer Agha rebuilt the abandoned building and revived the foundation.
- The mosque, which fell into disrepair over time, was completely demolished and rebuilt with reinforced concrete in 1970.
- In 1970, a Quran course was opened under the same roof as the mosque.
Prominent Features:
- It is also known as Yusuf Fakih Mosque.
- The Harim has a trapezoidal, quadrangular plan.
- The minbar is made of tiles, the mihrab and the preacher’s pulpit are made of wood.
- The inner wall skirts are covered with panelling for about half a metre.
- There is a muezzin’s gallery and a women’s gallery.
- There are two long windows on each wall.
- The ceiling is flat with pencil engravings.
- The women’s gallery is supported by two concrete pillars.
- Its minaret is made of concrete and the bottom of its balcony is decorated with muqarnas.
- There is a well at the entrance of the mosque and a fountain built in 1970 to the left of the entrance.
- The graveyard is in front of the mihrab and there are a few more graves here.
