Changes After Construction
Only the walls and the base of the minaret remained from the mosque, which was severely damaged during the Great Çırçır Fire in 1908.
Although it was rebuilt in the 1950s with the support of the Turkish Monuments Association and the local people, it was demolished once again in 1957 on the grounds that it was overflowing onto the road.
The mosque, which remained idle for a long time, was rebuilt in 2008 with the support of the Veysel Karani Hırka-i Şerif Mosque Service Foundation. These works were completed in 2011 under the sponsorship of Muhittin Cesur and for the charity of his late wife Kevser Cesur, and the Kazasker Abdurrahman Efendi Mosque was reopened for worship.
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It is an example of the mosques Mimar Sinan had built with solid walls and wooden roofs. In its reconstruction, it was built in accordance with the classical Ottoman style, with an alternating pattern of one row of stones and three rows of bricks.
The ceiling and roof originally had a wooden dome covered with lead, but the wooden dome was not used in the reconstruction. The interior ceiling has wooden slats.
The wooden carved mihrab, minbar and preacher’s pulpit were made by masters from Kahramanmaraş. The women’s gallery is on the upper floor, accessed by a wooden staircase.
There are iron-moulded windows in the lower row and plaster windows in the upper row.
