Abstract:

Elbaşoğlu Mosque was built in 1801 by Ahmet Aga, clean-cut stone architecture, square, rectangular with remarkable inscriptions Elbaşoğlu Mosque is one of the local mosque, wood-backed and wooden ceilings. Until 2007, the walls and the ceiling, and even the altar, wooden support, wood columns, wooden gallery, galleries, in short, all the wooden elements of the mosque was covered with oil on sweet-lime plaster. In 2007, during the repair of the roof of a simple chance, with plaster falling due to the flowing water under the pen-and-repair work on the emergence of ornaments and wooden decorations samples, then stopped cleaning and scraper operations in the administration of the General Directorate of Foundations in the interior of the mosque pen-rich samples of work, with examples of wooden decorative plaster under the mystery was revealed. Cover at the top of the walls combined with Harim calligraphy on a black background with spots, including a concave border of the belt framed verse was written. Verse generation raised on the corners of the ceiling moldings created crash of beads, triangle, octagon in the middle of a field, and thus created the split surfaces. Located in the middle of the octagon octagon-shaped belly, finished with carving technique, baroque decorated with floral motifs. the four corners of the triangular roof panels are decorated with reliefs excess plastic plant. Pen-work decoration floral motifs on the walls, gallery, pulpits, pillars, such as the carved wooden elements fall floral and geometric motifs are carved in the mosque offers a wealth of eye-catching as almost free space left. Made in 1801, in the early years of the Republic, the region's unique sweet-lime paint on plaster taken off this rich decoration, wood art and pen-work ornamentation Turkey offers one of the richest.

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