Demirciler Cami

Spirituality is great

Back to the past

Beautiful

People find peace

Because it's a mosque. Service and cleanliness separate points

A mosque that has been bought with the sword right and is open for worship

It is a cute mosque that takes its name from the blacksmith's workshops.

DEMİRCİLER MOSQUE (FETİH MOSQUE); Location: It is located in the Demirciler Bazaar on the Congress Street in Erzurum city center. History: The exact date is not known as the inscription on the church has been removed. However, due to the plan features, facade arrangements and the material used, the building's XVIII. It is thought to have been built in the century. The real estate has been protected by the decision of the High Council of Antiquities and Monuments dated 10.6.1977 and numbered A-601. Plan and Architectural Features: The church was built in a rectangular plan in the east-west direction. The church is 22.50 x 14.00 m. It has a basilical plan with three naves. The narthex section, arranged in two floors in front of the church, is divided into three sections by two columns. The naos section is divided into three naves with four columns and two square carriers in front of the apse. The middle nave is wider and higher than the side naves. The naves are covered with barrel vaults. Columns connected by round arches have square bases, cylindrical bodies and gradually widening capitals. The second floor of the narthex is reached by the ladder placed inside the wall that establishes the connection between the narthex and the naos. To the east of the church, there is a triple apse arrangement built as a semicircle from inside and outside. The narthex section on the west facade of the building has a two-storey arrangement and the ground floor is divided into three sections by two columns. The sides of the three-arched narthex are closed. Three windows have been opened on this façade, and the smaller ones in the middle are made larger. The north and south facades of the church are divided into four sections by five wall piers. There are three windows with round-arched pediments on both sides. Of the apses on the east façade, three windows in the middle and one on each side were opened. Almost all the decorations consisting of frescoes are gathered in the interior of the church. The most important fresco in the church is the depiction of Christ pantocrator in the middle of the barrel vault in the naos section. While in the Pantocrator Jesus depiction, Jesus should consecrate with his right hand and the Bible in his left hand, there is no Bible in this composition. Inside the halo surrounding the head of Christ, there are monograms of Jesus (XC-IC). The presence of vegetal and geometric ornaments on the vaults, column bodies and capitals of the church is evident from the remaining traces. Cut stone and rubble stone were used together as materials in the building. Cut stone was used in corners, wall piers, arches and windows, and rubble stone was used on other surfaces. The church, which is used as Fethiye Mosque today, was transformed into a mosque in 1997, while some changes were made, a mihrab niche was placed on the south wall and a pulpit was placed inside. The frescoes inside are covered with wooden plates and protected.