Diyarbakır Grand Mosque Map And Location

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history

It is the oldest mosque in Anatolia. It was formed in 639 by Muslim Arabs who ruled Diyarbakir, the largest shrine in the city center (Martoma Church) was converted into a mosque. Later, in 1091, the Great Seljuk ruler Melikşah'ın by the command of a great repair, many times in different periods of repair and add-ons are learned from the inscriptions. As a result of the fire and earthquake in 1115, the arches, the columns and the decorated stones were all destroyed. After this date, marble stones spread out. Diyarbakır Grand Mosque, which is interpreted as the reflection of the famous Damascus Umayyad Mosque in Anatolia to the early Islamic period (due to similarities), is accepted as the 5th Harem-i Sharif of the Islamic world. There is also a sundial made by the famous scholar Al Jazeri, who is accepted as the father of cybernetics in the mosque.

Architectural

In the east and west of the large courtyard in the middle of the mosques, the Hanifiler Mosque in the south, the Shafiiler Mosque and Mesudiye Madrasah in the north, and the Zinciriye Madrasah in the immediate vicinity of the west entrance of the mosque are a group of structures that combine religious and cultural structures. In the Madrasa of Zinciriye, El Cezeri (Imam Cezeri) was the first to teach. Because the doors of the madrasah are small, there are large scholars in the room. Architectural decorations, reliefs and inscriptions belonging to different periods are placed in great harmony on the courtyard facades of Ulu Mosque.

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