Grand Mosque

Great mosque and rustem pasha caravan palace are beautiful buildings that always remind us of our past with their complementary history.

The Great Mosque in Eregli district of Konya was built in 1426 by Mehmet Bey, the son of Karamanoğlu İbrahim Bey. However, there are some contradictions regarding the construction of the mosque. It was claimed that it was built during the Seljuk period and repaired and used by Karamanoğulları. In addition, 40 m. height of the minaret was built by the Seljuk as a watchtower. The minaret in the northeast corner of the Ulu Mosque is made of cut stone close to red, and Ayet’el Kürsi is written with thuluth writing between the base and the cube. In the wide belt under the cheers, there are traces of a black kufic script on a blue background. The tiles in the openings resembling the window under the cone were poured from place to place. Cheers six collapsed in 1994 and repaired by the General Directorate of Foundations, although the original appearance of the minaret repair. The prayer room of the Ulu Mosque has a rectangular plan and lies in the northeast direction. Inside it supports 32 pillar ceilings. Eight of these columns, which are connected to each other by arches, are made of masonry and the others are made of spolia.

There is no information about the architect of the mosque, which was built by Ibrahim Bey's son Mehmet Bey in 1445.

It has a great atmosphere. Ereğli is one of the places that can be visited rarely. You must go.

There used to be a lot of greenery, now there is nothing left, unfortunately, but the mosque should definitely be visited...

It was very enormous, it was as great as its name. Only in the old pictures, the old square was wooded and green. Now the square was only concrete. There was medicine inside because of Covid.

A very beautiful mosque, perfectly restored. Its history is very old. Around it, there was once a caravanserai, now an excellent nir millet coffee house with library content.