Eskihisar Çeşmesi

The history is beautiful.

I liked it very much as it is a historical monument Çeşme

It is close to the Eskihisar ferry port in Gebze. The fountain was built in 1772.

Eskihisar Fountain This historical fountain, built in 1772, was named after Eskihisar village. The fountain, which is covered with a pyramid-shaped roof, has a square plan. The front and back sides are 270cm and the sides are 315 cm. Its height is also close to 2 meters. This fountain, which has a great historical value, underwent a major repair in 1850.

Gebze'de Eskihisar feribot iskelesine yakın bir konumdadır. Çeşme 1772 yılında yaptırılmış. It is close to Eskisehir Ferry Terminal in Gibbs. The fountain was built in 1772.

There are two inscriptions on the front of the fountain, the construction dated 1775 and the repair dated 1844. The inscription is placed between two eyebrows. It is 1.24 m high from the ground. The inscription written in thuluth calligraphy, measuring 0.20 m x 0.74 m, is made of marble. The first three lines of the inscription arranged in two sections show the construction date of the fountain and the last two lines show the date of repair. The ground of each line of the inscription is painted dark green and the letters yellow. The lines between the inscriptions are kept different from each other and separated by thin moldings. In the lower repair inscription, the letters are stacked more frequently and separated from the original typeface above. Built in 1775 by Ahmet Ağa, the building was repaired in AD 1844. It is a single-facade, double-arched, reservoir street fountain built of rubble stone. The reservoir (storage) part of the fountain; It measures 3.53x2.03 m. It is covered with a flat roof inside and a four-sided hipped roof from outside. The connection of the reservoir part with the outside is provided by a 0.60 m wide window on the south facade. The main façade of the fountain is 4.73 m wide and 1.88 m high. On this façade, there are two fountain arches with a width of 0.86 m in the form of an eyebrow arch. Mirror parts of both arch niches are marble. Fountain facades lost their originality to a great extent during the repairs in 2000. As a result of the restoration work, the façade of the fountain was covered with yellow stones, and the joints between the stones were painted in black. The original masonry can only be partially seen on the southern facade today. In the photograph taken in 1970, it is seen that the building is above the road level, its façade is plastered and the fountain arches have round arches (Yücel Soyman, 1976: 101). The marble basin of the structure, which is quite simple, is the only place where the decoration of the ancient period is seen. Source: YAVUZYILMAZ A. "Gebze Fountains", International Journal of Social Research, 6 (25), 579.

Unfortunately, the fountain is stuck between the toilet and the cafe. It needs to be highlighted and expanded more. It would have been better if there was an introductory text next to it and the translation of the Ottoman inscription on it in today's Turkish. Since I know Ottoman, I read it easily, but not everyone knows it.