İmam Sekaki Cami - 1260. Sk. 9 A

IMAM SEKKÂKI MOSQUE Bıçakçılı Quarter is in Bıçakçı Square. It was built on the Virgin Mary church of the Melkites belonging to the Byzantine period. There is no building inscription. It is referred to as "Mescid-i Bıçakçı" in the 1523 citation. The fact that the mosque was founded with the Sekkakizade Hoca Şakir İbni Hoca Halil Efendi Foundation dated H.973 / M.1565 indicates that the mosque existed in the middle of the 16th century. The inscription dated H.1318 / M.1958 on the mihrab was written during the repair. In the transverse rectangular space extending along the mihrab wall, the cross-vaulted part in the middle is expanded with a barrel vault on both sides. Smooth cut stone was used as a construction material. The three-eyed last congregation place is covered with three cross vaults. The vaults sit on three piers on the front and walls on the sides. The mihrab is simple and unadorned. The balcony-shaped pulpit is reached by a stone staircase through the wall. There is a wooden muezzin gallery above the entrance. The large window opened from the muezzin mahfil to the last congregation functions as a recipient. The reinforced concrete minbar minaret on the courtyard door has been built in recent years. Mihrab Inscription: "Culling against you Zekeriyel mihrab, H.1318" (M.1958).