Kantarcılar Mosque
Changes After Construction:
- The minbar was added by Kadızâde Mehmed Efendi in 1688.
- It underwent major repairs and some additions were made in 1848 and 1895.
- In 1967-1968, a façade was built from brick and stone to try to give it a form true to the original.
- Unlike the old structure, walls were built on both sides of the front façade.
Prominent Features:
- The walls of the mosque are built of cut stone and brick.
- The mosque is a “fevkani” (elevated, upper-storey) and masonry structure.
- It is known as the “Sarı Timurci Mosque”.
- Its roof is made of wood and tiles, and it has one door at the top and one at the bottom.
- Additions were made on both sides of the building, and the single-balcony minaret forms a protrusion into the narthex. Its cone has an onion body. The plastered additional parts of the minaret are immediately noticeable.
- Its old walls are crafted with 2 rows of bricks and 1 row of roughly hewn stone.
- The Quranic verse “Prayer is an obligation upon the believers at certain times” (Nisa, 103) is written in beautiful Arabic calligraphy above the lower door.
- The inscription of the mosque, which is accessed by stairs, is above the outer door.
