Hüsrev Pasha Mosque
Hüsrev Pasha Mosque is a historical mosque located in the Sur district of Diyarbakır. It is located in the neighborhood of the same name. It was built by Divane Hüsrev Pasha. Evliya Çelebi, while describing the works of Diyarbakır, where he came in 1655, stated that Hüsrev Pasha Mosque was a "cute" place of worship with a crowded congregation near the Mardin Gate. No source has reached the present day that will definitively illuminate the construction date of the building. However, it was built as a madrasah (Husreviye Madrasa) by Divane Hüsrev Pasha, the second Ottoman Governor of the city, between 1521 and 1528, and as a result of the continued use of the masjid section by the public, it was converted into a mosque by adding a minaret in 1728. The building was repaired by the General Directorate of Foundations in 1991-1992. Covering a rectangular area in the north-south direction, the building has a courtyard arrangement. Square-sectioned porticoes are lined up on three sides of a rectangular courtyard, which is entered through a wide-arched door opened in a pointed-arched niche. While the tops of twelve sections of the pointed arched porticoes are covered with domes, behind them there are ten square cells on the left and right, each receiving light from a window. One cell at the far end of the qibla side has a rectangular plan and is covered with barrel vaults. Between these and the mosque, a domed cell was placed in the size of the ones on the sides. The minaret, which was added to the building later, rises independently of the building to the west of the courtyard entrance door in the north. The minaret of the mosque, which is made of black and white cut stone, has a cylindrical body and is in the Seljuk architectural style. In the building, two colored smooth cut stone materials were used from time to time together and from time to time as one. In the exterior architecture, ornamentation was applied on the portal and minaret, which provides the entrance to the courtyard.
