Bayezid Paşa Mosque

Beyazid Paşa, later to become grand vizier, had this mosque built in 1414 on the eastern bank of
Yeşilırmak, across the Künç Bridge in Bayezid Paşa District. Other than a few details, the inverse T shaped building resembles the mosques built in Bursa during the same period. These kinds of mosques are known as Angular or Bursa Type.
The most interesting feature of this building with its rather graceful structure and exquisite masonry is the portico on its north façade. The six square pillars in the portico are adjoined to one another and the side walls with heavy lancet arches so as to create five departments. Each department has a dome supported by octagonal socles ornamented with Turkish triangles.
The pillars are masoned of hewn stones upto the arches. The arches connecting the pillars are built
of red and white marble. The arches themselves are surrounded by slightly protruding marble contours.
ceilings of this part of the building are adorned with
patterns of intermingling leaves and branches. The
wooden entrance door is richly carved.
The interior of the mosque consists of two departments. The farther one with the shrine is smaller
than the other. The access to the wings on each side of the building is through the doors on the east and west walls of this space. Each part of the building has its separate dome.
The mosque has been restored by the General Directorate of Charitable Foundations in 2006.
Burmalı Minare Mosque and Cumudar Tomb Thanks to the arch shaped epigraph over the entrance,
the mosque is known to have been built by two brothers. Of these brothers, Said Ferruh is generally
accepted to be Necmeddin Ferruh Bey, one of the viziers of Seljuk Sultan Gıyaseddin Keyhüsrev
II. His brother is Haznedar Yusuf. The construction of the mosque is
generally dated to sometime between 1237 and 1244. The mosque, referred to as the Mahkeme Mosque by Evliya Çelebi in his