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Abstract Alvar located in Palinler, Erzurum obtain a right to be a district by the recent legislative regulations. Alvar Village is famous for the person called Hace Muhammad Lutfi who played a significant role in the formation of the spiritual atmosphere of Erzurum during the 19th and 20th centuries. Hâce Muhammad Lutfi rather known as Alvarlı Efe worked for 24 years as an imam in this district until the year of 1939. The mosque of this district called the Efe Priests provided the aforementioned of human-place togetherness hasined its existence until today. This mosque was built in the 19th century. It was restored in 1912. It became almost an Islamic-Ottoman social complex. The mosque is an example of wooden roofed mosques with wooden posts. The mosque has a very basic architecture except for the simple ornaments on the mihrab and minaret although it is possible to trace the tradition since the early periods as it is shown in the plan. Besides the monographic introduction of the mosque, this article analyzes it by considering the fact that the mosque is a distinguished example of late-period wooden roofed mosques with wooden posts in Erzurum and its surrounding.

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Abstract Alvar located in Pasinler, Erzurum obtain a right to be a district by the recent legislative regulations. Alvar Village is famous for the person called Hace Muhammed Lutfi who played a significant role in the formation of the spiritual atmosphere of Erzurum during the 19th and 20th centuries. Hâce Muhammed Lutfi rather known as Alvarlı Efe worked for 24 years as an imam in this district until the year of 1939. The mosque of this district called Efe Hazretleri provided the aforementioned of human-place togetherness has maintained its existence until today. This mosque was built in the 19th century. It was restored in 1912. It became almost an Islamic-Ottoman social complex. The mosque is an example of wooden roofed mosques with wooden posts. The mosque has a very basic architecture except for the simple ornaments on the mihrab and minaret though it is possible to trace the tradition since the early periods as it is shown in the plan. Besides the monographic introduction of the mosque, this article analyzes it by considering the fact that the mosque is a distinguished example of late-period wooden roofed mosques with wooden posts in Erzurum and its surrounding.