Şeyh Hacı Ahmet Efendi Mosque and Tomb
Mosque; Taşköprü Neighborhood is on Şeyhzade Street. It was built by Şeyh Hacı Ahmet Efendi in 1859, and the epitaph was written by Hacı Ahmet Efendi with the pseudonym abandoned. The harim has a longitudinal rectangular plan and a flat ceiling. In the south, there is a semi-cylindrical mihrab on the axis, and a newly made wooden pulpit with balustrades (in the west) made with the lattice carving technique. The pulpit, the mihrab and the wooden decorations next to it were made during the restoration of the mosque in the 1990s. To the north of the sanctuary is a mahfil, the front of which protrudes to the north like a balcony. There are six private cells on the north wall of the mahfil.
The harim has two gates, east and west. From the door in the east, the space in front of the tomb is entered, and from the round-arched door in the northwest, the harim is entered. As an ornament inside the sanctuary, the ceiling and upper lattices made with the tapestry technique are on wood on the pediment of the mihrab; The "Surah Ihlas" written by Abdulkadir al-Shukri, one of the palace calligraphers, and the "Esmaül Hüsna" and "Conquest Surahs", which continue in two lines in the space above the windows, draw attention. Its square base and polygonal minaret was built in 1957 in the northwest corner of the sanctuary. There is a single-sided fountain in the southwestern outer corner of the mosque. The tomb, which is entered through a round-arched door, was built of yellow cut stone. The square planned tomb is covered with a dome. Sheikh Haci Ahmet Efendi and his two sons and grandson are buried in the tomb.
