Özet:

City of Urfa, or with it’s ancient name Edessa had been established at the late 4th century BC. Urfa had become a kind of home, even a cradle for different religions, such as pagan beliefs, christianity and Islam since then. Urfa has always been kind of blessed city, which deserves to be called “city of saints”. When we look at the history of religious architecture in Urfa, we see several buildings which had been transformed from church to the mosque, or originally builded as a pagan temple than first transformed to the church and then to the mosque. It is also possible to run into different churches and mosques which had been erected on the ruins of another pagan temple or another church. In that context the present study aims, while keeping in view the religious and historical evolution of this “blessed” city, to focus on three different examples of religious architecture, which have been serving as mosques since 18th and 19th centuries, however builded as churches. The three mosques, which we will look closely, are Circis (Sirkis) Peygamber Cami, Selahaddin Eyyubi Cami and Fırfırlı Cami.

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