Isabey Mosque (Selçuk)

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Isabey Mosque from Castle Hill
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Bust of Isa Bey in front of the mosque. The three inscription panels indicate that the mosque was built in 1375.

The Isabey Mosque ( Turkish Isabey Camii ) is located at the southwestern foot of the Ayasoluk castle hill below the citadel and St. John's Church , about 300 m northeast of Artemision of Ephesus , in the district town of Selçuk in the Turkish province of Izmir .

Building history

The Sultan Isa Bey I (1360-1390), son of Mehmet Bey, the founder of the Seljuk dynasty of the Aydınoğulları , who ruled Western Anatolia in the 14th and 15th centuries, had the mosque built by the Damascus architect in 1374 (according to other sources, 1375) Ali ibn el Dımışki built in the style of an Arab court mosque. A building inscription above the main portal indicates the year 777 of the Islamic calendar as the year of construction. The arcades of the inner courtyard were destroyed in the earthquakes of 1653 and 1668. One of the two minarets , which were located on the northeast and northwest corners of the prayer room, was completely destroyed, the other was removed up to the balcony. After the building had been misappropriated for a long time and used, among other things, as a caravanserai, the mosque was reopened in 1975 after a complete restoration. In 2005 a renovation was carried out in which, among other things, the lead roof was replaced.

construction

The Isabey Mosque encloses an area of ​​about 56.5 × 48.5 m and consists of an arcade courtyard and a three-part prayer room. Through the main portal to the west, which is surrounded by a serrated border, alternating with yellowish and white stones and is closed at the top by a muqarnas , one enters the inner courtyard, from whose arcades only individual columns can be seen on three sides. The former wooden roof is gone. The only remaining minaret stands above the portal, the second was above the opposite, mountain-side gate. A third, smaller gate is on the north side. There is an octagonal fountain in the center of the courtyard. The door with three ogival passages on the south side leads into the actual three-part prayer room of around 18 × 48 m. The middle part with the pulpit and mihrab (prayer niche) is crowned by two Ottoman domes, which are decorated inside with turquoise and blue faience . The four vaulted dark granite columns come from the port baths of Ephesus .

  • West facade

  • Main portal

  • Inner courtyard with fountain and entrance to the prayer room

  • Prayer niche (mihrab) and pulpit

literature

Katharina Otto-Dorn: The Isa Bey Mosque in Ephesus in Istanbul Research XVII , 1950, pp. 115–31

Web links

Commons : Isabey Mosque  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Discover Islamic Art
  2. ↑ a b İ. Arkan Atila, Özcan Atalay: Ephesus and the house of Mother Mary. 4th edition. Güney Kartpostal Ve Turistik Yayıncılık, Ankara 2010, ISBN 978-975-6994-49-8 , p. 57.
  3. ↑ Archnet  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / archnet.org  
  4. ^ Michael Bussmann, Gabriele Tröger: Turkey . Michael Müller Verlag, 2004, ISBN 3-89953-125-6 , p. 276.

Coordinates: 37 ° 57 '8 "  N , 27 ° 21' 57"  E