Ahi Yusuf Mescidi

A mosque that has to be reached on the way down from Kaleiç to its marble beach. There is a tomb on the back side. A magnificent mosque with good memories of praying in my childhood.

Antalya City with the iconic history of Kaleiçi Ahi Yusuf Hz. I recommend you to visit the Masjid-i and Mausoleum

Mermerli Street in Selcuk District. It was built in 1249 in the name of Ahi Yusuf. It is a small square that is made of rubble stones and has a square plan. Ahi Yusuf Tomb is located in the south of the mosque.

The oldest mosque in Antalya: Ahi Yusuf Mosque Located in Mermerli Banyo Sokak, Kaleiçi, Antalya, this mosque was built in the name of Ahi Yusuf on 647 H (1249) according to its inscription. There is a double door on the façade of the mosque and rectangular windows on both sides of the door. The facade is very plain. Doors and windows on the pointed arch pediment. Instead of worship, it is entered through a gate made of cut stone in the north with a niche. The mosque has a square plan and a single dome. Rubble stone was used as construction material. Looking at the old paintings, there was previously a columned last congregation on the northern front. The interior of the mosque is very simple. The half-cylindrical altar has pointed arches on both sides. To the north of this mosque is a tomb of Ahi Yusuf among the ruins of the old fortress walls. The upper floor of the two-storey tomb stands out from an arch made of block stones. One of these remains is that the masjid used to be a complex. On the narrow street of the masjid covered with alaturka tiles with a cornice fringed and pyramidal roof, there is also a fountain whose inscription adjacent to the structure is quite destroyed. The Masjid was restored in 1962 by the Directorate of Foundations and in 1992 by Mehmet Yazar on behalf of his daughter Sema. Tomb of Ahi Yusuf The tomb has two floors. The upper floor is the zaviye and the lower floor is the burial chamber. Here, Ahi Yusuf s chest is located. This area is in the form of a pointed vault in the north-south direction. The western wall of the tomb opens out to the top with an arch and inner surface. It also evaluates a pointed arch courtyard adjacent to the tomb wall and to the west of the tomb. The roof is covered with pyramidal and alaturka tiles. There are three graves in the space between the mosque and the tomb. Two of these are head and foot stone and the third is plain and head stone. Two of the graves have inscriptions. 1. Inscription: Inscription of the simple grave of Yusuf Kaptan, who died in H. 1251 - M. 1835; 2. Inscription: H. 1275 - M. The death of 1859 and Ali Mahlis Efendi'nin timber is the inscription of the simple tomb of Mrs. Nefise. 3. Inscription: A third inscription that gives the feeling of a tombstone at first glance is the inscription of the mosque built in H. 647 - M. 1249.

I was very impressed while reading the antalya section in Evliya Çelebi's travel book.

I was here on May 20, 2018. This masjid, located in Mermerli Street in the Old Kaleiçi, Selçuklu District, was built in 1249 on behalf of Ahi Yusuf, according to the inscription. It has a square plan and a single dome. The entrance gate in the north is made of cut stone and has a niche on it. Before the old paintings, it is known that there was a last congregation place with columns on the north facade. This last congregation place remained at the edges of the courtyard wall and the entrance door. There are sharp arched windows on both sides of the mosque's very plain, half-cylindrical mihrab. There is a mausoleum belonging to Ahi Yusuf among the remains of the old fortress walls to the north of this mosque. A profiled arch made of block stones stands out to the upper floor of the two-storey tomb. On the narrow street of the masjid, there is also a fountain whose inscription adjacent to the masjid has been damaged, and it was restored by the Directorate of Foundations in 1962 and by Mehmet Yazar in 1990.

There is an Ethnography and Islamic museum in the castle. The mausoleum of Ahi Yusuf is located in the courtyard of the mosque, behind the mosque. The mosque is open to worship. Sadirvan is available in the garden. A small mosque built in 1249 and restored in 2008. Unfortunately, there is no example of pencil work or chronicle work inside the mosque. After the visit to the mosque, the museum of Islamic artworks is located right next to it and is open for free visit, I strongly recommend you to see it.