Abstract:

Mosques with tabhanes, layouts of which are still being employed in contemporary mosque architecture, served rather for social purposes to serve Akhis and travelling Dervishes who were considered as critical agents in the establishment and development of the Ottoman Empire. This particular typology emerged out of four-iwan schema which was repeatedly used within traditional Turkish architecture having its roots in Central Asia. Mosques with tabhanes in Anatolia were built in the period between XIV and XVI. the centuries. Soon after the institutions and people that these mosques had served for had disappeared, these buildings served solely for worship. This study aims to comprehensively evaluating the set of Mosques with tabhanes at hand, and generating a typology based on existing layout schemas. The first step was to conduct an archival study in order to list 64 existing Mosques with tabhanes. It is presented the plans and architectural features of each Mosque with tabhanes alongside comparisons with similar type buildings inside and outside of Anatolia.

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