Hoca İmam Cami

Beautiful mosques with adobe walls and wooden ceilings. Wood-embroidered Ceiling hub, wooden vault with the niches opened through the wall and pulpit mosque must be seen. Çapanoğulların 18 century is one of the works he repaired the mosquito. Two tombs inside the mosque give a different spiritual air.

Restoration of a historical mosque in Sivas Center from the last period of the Ottoman was made a few years ago

The main area of ​​worship is entered by a door with an openness of 1.32 meters. The wooden ceiling overlying the space has a ceiling decoration which is very common in the samples of Civil Architecture in Sivas. In the middle of the square, the center of the ceiling is set with squares. There is a circular wooden ceiling of approximately 1.50-1.80 molars in the middle of this square. It is divided into geometric rhombuses with small zigzag slats. On the inner rhombus, the plant motifs were processed. The edges of the circle are framed by a sliced ​​and perforated ornament. The wooden pulpit with a hanging balcony just to the right of the mihrab is reached through an opening which was previously used as a window but later closed and turned into a ladder. The pulpit railings are of geometric shape with wooden material and are attached to the ceiling by thin columns. The balcony-shaped hanging pulley narrows downward in the form of a half cone. On the eastern wall of the original worship area, a wooden sermon seat was placed in the form of a semicircle between the two windows. Three steps through the wall in the second window are reached to the seat of the sermon. The mosque is in the bazaar and the community has been enlarged. In addition to this, in addition to the women's court in the north, women's community was added to the east and west and more communities were taken.

Beautiful historic mosque. Only one of the works that add beauty to Sivas ... Small, but great spirituality.

A clean, well-kept place in which restoration works have been lost within the scope of restoration works

The sanctuary of the mosque consists of the last place of assembly in the north of the Harim, partly a small inner courtyard in front of the west facade and a basement floor under the western part of the Harim with its wet rooms in this inner courtyard. The entrance to the building from the inner courtyard is from both sides of the minaret base on the north facade. From the east to the last community, from the west to the basement, which is located under the western part of the mosque and now serves as the women's department, is planned. The mosque was part of our city tour, which we described in detail in the "Travel Report Sivas" with photos.

Khoja Imam Mosque SİVAS CENTER Sirer Street PRESENT OWNER: General Directorate of Foundations DATE OF REGISTRATION: 12.3.1983 REGISTRATION DECISION: A-4190 DETAILED DESCRIPTION: The outer main walls of the mosque are 0.85 meters thick and were built with mudbrick material and plastered. A wooden ceiling and a sheet metal roof cover the main walls. There is a small courtyard to the north and toilets to the northeast. The area where the mosque sits is empty and has a basement. The main worship area is entered through a door with an opening of 1.32 meters. The wooden ceiling covering the space has a ceiling decoration that is very common in the Civil Architecture examples of Sivas. The middle of the ceiling is set on a square with laths, in the middle of this square there is a circular wooden ceiling with a radius of approximately 1.50-1.80 molars. It is divided into geometric rhombuses intertwined with small zigzag laths. Floral motifs were embroidered on the innermost rhombus. The edges of the circle are framed by a sliced ​​and perforated ornament. The core of this circular ceiling is sliced ​​and hung down, narrowing with steps. A triple brass candelabra is placed at the end of the circular pendulous core. Wooden square, floral motifs are engraved on triangular wooden boards on the four corners of the ceiling. The entire ceiling was covered with oil paint, the lath and the core were painted with gilding. There are two side-by-side columns with a twisted body on a square base at the outer corners of the three-cornered mihrab niche with a depth of 0.75 meters. Double-sided vegetal borders over the combined capitals of the pillars adorn the mihrab pediment symmetrically. Three round arched colonnades were carved on the triangular inner faces of the mihrab niche, a splendid dome shape on the middle arch and a lamp motif hanging down from the middle of each arch. Its muzzle gradually narrows upwards in three nodes. The niche and motifs of the mihrab are completely covered with oil paints and gilding. Just to the right of the mihrab, the wooden pulpit with a suspended balcony is accessed through an opening that was used as a window but was later closed and turned into a staircase. The pulpit railings are wooden, geometrically shaped and attached to the ceiling with thin twisted columns. The bottom of the balcony-shaped suspended pulpit narrows downwards in the form of a half-cone. On the eastern wall of the main prayer hall, a suspended wooden preaching chair is placed in the form of a semicircle between the two windows. The pulpit is accessed by three steps passing through the wall in the second window. Due to the fact that the mosque is in the bazaar and its congregation is large, the place has been enlarged by force. Not only that, but also the women's gathering place in the north, as well as the women's gathering place in the east and west, more congregations were taken. The interior is illuminated with three windows in the east, one in the north, two lower windows opened later in the west, and two upper windows in the south. The original windows in the east direction are wide inside and narrow outward, with rectangular frames. The minaret, located in the northwest corner of the mosque, is accessed through a door from the narthex. The minaret was rebuilt in 1953 by İhramcızâde İsmail Hakkı Toprak.