Özet:

Considering the Eastern Black Sea Region, Rize is undoubtedly one of the first settlements that come to mind in Turkey, where wood gains an artistic identity in line with the possibilities given by the geographical conditions. Wood, which can be found easily in the region and has a traditional construction technique based on the historical past, has been used in Rize architecture sometimes as the main construction material in the çantı technique, sometimes as a stone based masonry structure and in different techniques. In this context, in addition to mosques, which are at the foremost of monumental building types, there are examples of serander and residential types of civil buildings among the representatives of traditional architecture, as well as examples of wooden art in the province and its countryside. In this study, these works, which reflect the artistic interaction of the surrounding cultures in their general composition in their regional character, are examined collectively for the first time in terms of architectural decorations, with a multifaceted perspective. Our research, which highlights the role of traditional construction technique in the shaping of the Eastern Black Sea monumental architecture, is important in terms of the terminological nature of which the naming problem of some elements is discussed, as well as the determination of the style problem in the art of wood decoration. In terms of their historical and artistic value, twelve of the wooden mosques made in the çantı technique, which have the decorations we have identified in the city center and the countryside, are discussed in the study. In the mosques, where traditional methods are applied in all details up to the selection of durable wood type as in the construction-aesthetic stages, local practices of decoration style and subjects are also encountered. In the article, which forms its orientation within this framework, the first group of the determined motif type or composition elements constitute the examples of the late period western cultivated elements in Ottoman Architecture with traditional technical and stylized character. In the other two groups of decoration subjects, the first is the terminological recognition pattern fiction solution proposed despite various names in the literature of the compositions of “braiding”, “basket weave”, “yürüyen sekiz”, which are frequently encountered in the medieval Christian art world and show a wide spread area in the same geographical region through interaction it is clarified from the origin research. It is explained with examples that the second group decoration subjects, which also have a geometric system, consist only of the “ring” motif characteristic of the Eastern Black Sea region. One of the problems of our deepening research on decoration is the determination of the common designs of the masters and in this context the existence of a wooden style, which we can say for some settlements of the Eastern Black Sea region and a region that partially includes Transcaucasia

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