Çakmakçılar Mosque
Changes After Its Construction:
- It underwent significant repairs in 1954.
- The mosque was built on an inn and the lower floors are entirely workplaces.
Prominent Features:
- It is also known as the Saka Çeşmesi Mosque and the Sultan Mustafa III Mosque due to the fountain on which it was built and its benefactor.
- It attracts attention with its high-rise (upper-storey) structure, and the mosque is entered through the inn door.
- The walls are built using alternating bricks and stones.
- Its dome is covered with lead.
- It has two rows of windows; the lower ones are rectangular, and the upper ones are oval.
- Its mihrab is painted with oil paint and its minbar is wooden.
- The upper gallery is accessed by a spiral staircase and there is no preacher’s pulpit.
- There is an additional room behind the right wall.
- Its minaret has a single balcony and is made of brick, and its cone is covered with lead.
