Şeyh Hüsameddin Mosque
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- Changes after its construction
- It was abandoned over time and when only its four walls remained, its stones were sold by a contractor.
- The mosque was revived thanks to the association formed by the people coming together between 1985 and 1988.
- Prominent features
- It is also known as “Tulumcu Husam Mosque”.
- It was built from cut stone.
- The minaret is built on the arch of the entrance gate, which is a rare feature, and is an interesting example from an architectural point of view.
- The walls of the rectangular mosque are made of cast stones, and the ceiling is reinforced concrete and has a wooden roof.
- It was built together with the women’s gallery and the narthex.
- Its minaret, which was rebuilt in accordance with the original, has a round body, a single balcony and a cast stone cone, starting from the second-floor level and above the door.
- The inner wall skirts, columns, window tops, mihrab, minbar and preacher’s pulpit are decorated with Kütahya tiles.
- There is a fountain with a dome and a marble chamber in its courtyard. It also has a marble-coated fountain for drinking water.
- The garden is tidy and well-maintained, and there are some old graves in the mosque’s graveyard.
- Although it is said that Sheikh Hüsameddin Bursevi, who died in 1632, had a tomb here, his grave does not exist today.
