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Abstract enFor civilizations, roads have always been significant for political, military and commercial purposes. Societies who tended to expand built accommodation places on the posts they established on these roads in order to reinforce their authority on their territory, to secure themselves and to meet their vital needs. The requirement for these centers, which were built in certain intervals, to meet the expectations caused structures with different functions to be built altogether, and consequently communities that are called social complex emerged. We see the foundations of social complex structures were laid in the State of Samanoğulları, and their construction developed and were continued in a historical process and reached its top level during the era of the mighty Ottoman Empire, and these were built on critical points in cities and in key areas on intercity routes. Bringing development and revival in the areas in which they are built, the social complexes are important not only in terms of their location and plan characteristics, but also in terms of wooden, metal, stained glass and hand drawn decorations observed on their structures and particularly on mosques, integrated with the architecture and reflecting the Ottoman taste in art. Therefore the subject of this study is the evaluation of the Gebze Çoban Mustafa Paşa and İzmit Pertev Paşa mosques, which are remarkable with their hand drawn decorations and which are among the structures of the 16th century located within the social complexes of the Ottoman Empire built on posts, with regard to their ornamentation program

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