Akçakoca Cami

1330 in the very spiritual and old mosque is not much community, but a very peaceful Prayer will make an environment izmit skyline under your feet looks deeply up the view of the super is a bit of blowing but you can visit the left of the Ethnographic Museum, a few cultural houses and historical mansion there is a bath on the side there is an area called Ottoman Street on the left side there are inscriptions that refer to Sheikh Edebali and haymeana and so on. There are very old buildings 300-400 Year buildings ..

It is the only mosque in Akçakoca neighborhood and the first mosque in İzmit, which is the center of old İzmit and one of the neighborhoods that see İzmit from a bird's eye view. Gazi Akçakoca, who besieged Nikomedya during the Orhan Gazi period, built this mosque when he besieged the city. Although the exact date of construction is not known, the alliance date is 1255. Because there is this date under the verses written as a calligraphy on the upper left corners of the north and south walls of the mosque. The mosque was named as Akçakoca Mosque after Akçakoca, who contributed to the conquest of Kocaeli. (It is also known as Dere Mosque today.) It has lost the character of the period it was first established since it has been repaired many times. Its minaret looks older than today's building. The mosque has a wooden roof and a square plan. ARCHITECTURAL FEATURES: The mosque has a rectangular plan close to a square with the closed narthex extending to the north of the main space. The mosque was built in a masonry system. The outer façades of the mosque are arranged in two floors. On the western façade, where the narthex and the main space meet, the minaret is located. The brick-bodied minaret does not have a cone. In the middle of the north facade belonging to the last congregation place of the mosque, there is an entrance landing covered with a tile-covered eaves, which was later closed.

The building, another name of which is the Akçakocadere Mosque, attracted us with its historical and touristic appearance and scenery.

Only one of our values ​​with a perfect spiritual atmosphere, it should definitely stop by, it has never happened, two rak'ahs should be given in vain prayer and pray to our past and us;)

A historical mosque.

The conqueror of Sakarya and Kocaeli is the first mosque built by Akçakoca Bey in 1328, after the conquest of Kocaelin. Akçaönem koca Bey and Süleyman Pasha accelerated their grooming activities after the conquest and gave importance to the development of baths, mosques and waterways to the environment.

I recommend it to everyone living in Izmit and its surroundings. Our historic cute mosque. The spiritual atmosphere is different.

A historical mosque. Thanks to the wooden structures inside, a different and beautiful atmosphere is felt than today's mosques.