Tütüncü Mehmet Efendi Mosque
- Changes After Its Construction
- The mosque underwent some maintenance and repairs in 1975 and later.
- Prominent Features
- The mosque, with a single minaret and two balconies, attracts attention with its impressive historical stone walls and windows.
- There is a fountain and a shadirvan in the garden of the mosque.
- Its walls are made of masonry, its roof is made of wood, and its minaret has two balconies.
- In the graveyard located in the mosque courtyard, Tütüncü (“tobacco seller”) Mehmed Efendi, one of the first industrialists of the Ottoman Empire, his wife, his mother-in-law, his granddaughter, his nephew and the first imam of the mosque, Kemal Effendi, are buried.
- The mosque bears the name of Tütüncü Mehmet Efendi, who played an important role in the development of Göztepe and its shaping as a residential area.
- The funeral of historian and writer Reşat Ekrem Koçu was also held in this mosque.
