Çapanoğlu Mosque

It was built by the XVII.YUZYIL Capanogullari, and it was built as two sections in separate periods. The Tomb Courtyard, Fountain and Stone Workplace, Our Place of Worship is a Work of Epic Architecture with its Entrance Door Worth Seeing.

Great historic mosque in the city of Yozgat. It bears the name of a very influential family of notables until the last hours of the Ottoman era.

I would like to give information about the Yozgat Capanoğlu Mosque. .Çapanoğlu Mosque - Yozgat Capanoğlu Mosque is in a central part of the city, near Cumhuriyet Square, in Istanbulluoğlu neighborhood. The building, which is popularly known as the Great Mosque or the Great Mosque, is one of the important examples of the Turkish architectural style in Anatolia, which emerged under the European influence during the Ottoman Empire Period. ” is called. The section called the interior mosque and constituting the southern part of the building was built in 1193 (1779) by Çapanoğlu Mustafa Bey, the governor of Bozok sanjak, according to the inside inscription on the middle door of the harim. The place, which was added to this section from the north and called "outside mosque", was built by Mustafa Bey's brother Süleyman Bey in 1208 (1793-94), as can be understood from the inscription on the door opening to the present entrance portico. The mosque is surrounded by a courtyard wall on all four sides. In 1964, a third door was added to the north side of the monumental arched doors on the east and west sides of the courtyard. Intense hand-drawn decorations are seen in the mosque. Inside the mosque and outside the mosque's sanctuary walls, upper walls, arch arches and bellies are painted with imitation of marble. Outside the mosque's main dome and its pendentives (triangular corner in the form of a sphere that closes the gap between the arches carrying the dome and the base of the dome and provides the passage from the square plan to the circular base of the dome). The decorations made with curved branches, leaves, flowers and fruits are remarkable. The first crown gate of the building, which is at the entrance to the main harem from the outer mosque, created a rich and magnificent composition. Acanthus leaves, C and S folds, seashell motifs crown the mihrab. The pulpit, on the other hand, is decorated like a jewel with colorful veined marbles and various shapes including baroque motifs. This structure, which carries the influence of Western art with its interior decoration and architectural components, is one of the most important examples of Turkish baroque in Anatolia. It is a small domed structure made of white cut stone protruding from the main walls at the northeast corner where the inner and outer mosques meet. The tomb is entered through a round arched door that opens into the outer mosque. There are 18 sarcophagi of various sizes in the building. These sarcophagi belong to the Capanoğlu family and the Yozgat gentry.