Abstract:

Kemaliye district connected to ÖZ Erzincan is 144 km from the center. is far away.  First, after the Turkish conquest of Anadolu until the Ottoman rule, it remained attached to the Anatolian Selçuklists, the Divine and the Akkoyunlists. The district, which shows a river-parallel settlement on the west coast of the Euphrates Valley, reflects the 19th-century physical tissue of the Ottoman era. Middle Cami is located on the ground rooted from the north to the south alongside the Lake of the Woman in the district. The Central Cami consists of the middle section covered with a cubic with a straight-to-range plan, the inner and straight wooden roof covered with the outer roof covered with the places in the east and west and the last community location located in the north. In the southern front, the Mishra is moving out. In the document of the General Directorate of the Foundations of 1985 the building material of the mosque passes as crude yoon stone. Currently, cutting stone is used as a coating material.  The windows on the front are bright. There is no building book. The structure known as the Middle Cami, according to archive records, must be built by Kiremitçi Mustafa Ağa. The name of the mosque in the Ottoman archives of the Prime Minister is also known as "Selatin, Bulunlu, Middle Cami". The archive records, taking into account the architectural characteristics of the mosque, would be appropriate to date the structure to the 17th century. In this study, from the archive photos of the Foundation’s General Directorate, the paintwork decorations of the mosque will be examined in terms of the characteristics and technical and composition aspects. The coverage of the coverage has not been published before. Our goal is to determine its location in the image of the Anadolu wall by presenting the painting decorations in detail. Cami had decorations of the pen work applied on the slope on which the effects of the Westernization period were seen. But the wrong repairs made in time prevented these decorations from coming to the present day. Serve and fruit trees, land flowers linked to curved wings, rubber roses, medals, scratches, C and S curves are the drawings applied in candle, column, moon-star decoration. Colors such as hardal yellow, blue, green, red, orange, black have been used. The decorations seen in this mosque are not as an understanding, but they have different decorations as an example in Istanbul. Natural morts or landscapes seen in other places of Anadolu have not been applied in this mosque. The quality of the decorations is weak and the disorders in the ratio indicate that the masters working here are local. It is also important that Erzincan in this small district the art is reduced to the public and that it takes its own place in the public art. These decorations can be dated in the last quarter of the 19th century, taking into account the book of 1884-86, and in terms of its characteristics.

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