Hoca Kasım Günani Mosque
- Changes the building has undergone since its construction
- It was repaired and revived in 1835 during the reign of Sultan Mahmud II.
- In 1970, the wooden cladding was renewed under the supervision of the Foundations Administration.
- Prominent features of the mosque
- It is also known as Meydancık Mosque.
- According to legend, it is also known as the “Hasan Husayn Mosque” because two men named Hasan and Hussein, who were martyred in the service of Abu Ayyub al-Ansari, were buried here.
- It is n elevated building with wooden cladding; its roof is wooden and its walls are covered with hand-drawn decorations.
- Its interior area is 110 m². Its minbar, pulpit, mihrab and women’s gallery are made of wood.
- There are four long windows on the street side, one above the other, and two windows to the right and left of the altar.
- Its single-balcony minaret was made of brick and later plastered with concrete.
- In front of the mosque, the shrine of Abu Ayyub al-Ansari and the shrine of another of the honorable companions, Jafar b. Abdullah al-Ansari, are located.
