Kürkçübaşı Hacı Hüseyin Ağa Mosque

A philanthropist named Fatma Hatun had the minbar built and converted the small masjid into
a mosque.
It was renovated in 1871.
It was repaired by a benefactor named Rahmi Gezer in 1945.
The date 1871 and the “Basmalah Prayer” are written on the marble inscription above the
courtyard entrance door.
It has a fountain dated 1927 and is not working.

The walls of the mosque are made of masonry; the roof is wooden; the minaret is made of
stone and brick with an alternating weave and has a single balcony and the balcony railing is
made of iron.
The interior walls are covered with paneling up to the bottom of the windows; they are
decorated with tiles up to the ceiling.
The upper gallery is accessed from the muezzin’s gallery on the left and is seated on four
wooden poles.
There are three long windows on the right and left walls, and two windows of the same size on
the mihrab wall.
The ceiling is wooden, the mihrab is made of tiles; the minbar and the preacher’s pulpit are
polished wood.
The “Basmalah” (“In the name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Most Gracious”) above the
mosque door, dated 1871, was written during the restoration of the mosque.
In its courtyard, there are water basins decorated with reliefs and ornaments of tulip, rose and
fruit motifs.