Şahu Geda Mosque
- Changes after its construction
- The mosque, which fell into disrepair over time, was renovated in 1978.
- The narthex was closed by the congregation in 1989.
- Prominent features
- The name of the mosque comes from the third “mathnawi”* of Taşlıcalı Yahya Efendi’s “Hamse”** Şah-u Geda – Padişah ve Fakir (en: King and the Pauper). In this mathnawi, the transformation of human love between Shah Ahmed and Geda Bilgin into divine love is narrated.
- It is also known among the public as the “Bostan Mosque”.
- It is a square-plan, roofed, and masonry building.
- Its walls are made of two rows of bricks and one row of cut stone, and it is a “fevkani” (an elevated building with an upper floor).
- The interior ceiling and the minbar are made of wood.
- Its mihrab is made of marble with hourglass and stalactite decorations.
- The open narthex with three columns and a wooden ceiling was closed by the congregation in 1989.
- The upper gallery is placed on four wooden pillars.
- The entrance to the minaret on the right is from the inside and is built of cut stone.
- The body of the minaret, which has a single balcony, has honeycomb corners and its cone is covered with lead.
*Mathnawi: a poem based on independent, internally rhyming lines found in Turkish, Persian, Arabic and Urdu literatures.
**Hamse: from Arabic “Khamsa”, meaning five, is a book where five mathnawis of a poet compiled.
