Özet:

Suakin Island is an island built on the worldwide important coral reefs on the Red Sea coast of Sudan, with 58 km distance to Portsudan. The most important feature of this island is the buildings built by coral reefs removed from the sea. The island, which is functioning as a door opening to inner Africa commercially due to its strategic position and which was full of many qualified structures (dwelling, mosque, bank, hospital, workshop, customs building etc.), has been in ruins nowadays. Among the important buildings on the island there are also a custom and two mosques left from the Ottoman empery period between the 16th and 17th centuries. Within the scope of this article, in the first part the information about architectural features of the Ottoman period buildings will be given and in the second part the documentation and the preparation of the surveying which based on 3D laser scanning technology will be described.

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