WOODEN CEILING MOSQUES IN ESKI GEDIZ TOWN, KÜTAHYA
KÜTAHYA İLİ ESKİ GEDİZ KASABASI’NDAKİ AHŞAP TAVANLI CAMİLER

Author : Elif GÜRSOY
Number of pages : 160-181

Abstract

The tradition of building a mosque with wooden pillars and ceilings has a long history in Turkish architecture and was used in Anatolian Seljuks, Beyliks and Ottomans. This tradition was also applied to Salur Mosque, Kadirağa Mosque, Eminağa Mosque and Imamoğlu Mosque in the Eski Gediz Town of Kütahya. These four examples, which are similar to each other compared to the covering system, are also similar with fevkani(two-storey mosque) installation. In addition to its simple, unpretentious architecture, the wooden ceiling mosque tradition, which was maintained with great pleasure in every period, was determined in the examples which were the subject of study at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century; and in line with this, it is aimed to introduce the buildings with their plans and photographs. With the introduction of the examples dated to the end of the 19th century and the 20th century in Eski Gediz Town, by determining its place in Anatolian Turkish architecture and conducting an evaluation on the characteristic architecture of the region, it was tried to make contributions to the field of architectural history.

Keywords

Kütahya, Old Gediz, Wooden Ceiling Mosques, Mosque Architecture.

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