Ulu Cami (Birgi)

Ulu Cami ("Great Mosque", also called Aydınoğlu Mehmet Bey Mosque) is a historical mosque in Turkey.

The mosque is in the Birgi town reworded in Ödemiş ilçe (district) of İzmir Province at 38°15′24″N 28°04′02″E.

Aydınids was an Anatolian beylik ( principality ) in the 14th century in West Anatolia. Birgi, now a small village was the capital of the beylik. The mosque was commissioned by Mehmet, the first ruler of the beylik.

Architecture

The mosque was built in 1312. It is an example of a typical Seljukid mosque. The most notable sections of the mosque are the fine woodworking mimbar which has no metallic nail [1] and the mihrab which is made of dark cyan marble.[2] The lion statue in the south eastern corner of the building is also interesting for statues are rare in Islamic architecture and this statue is a spolia from a Lydian building.

Mimbar gate theft

In 1993 the gate of the mimbar disappeared and it was discovered by a British tourist in British Museum. The Ministry of Culture and Tourism purchased the gate and in 1996 it returned to where it belongs.[2]

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References
  1. Visitİzmir page (in Turkish)
  2. İzmir periodical (in Turkish)


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