Wooden Hypostyle Mosques of Medieval Anatolia
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How it came to be
After the Mongol invasions of the 1240s, mosques with wooden columns and wooden roofs were built across Anatolia. The earliest, the Great Mosque of Afyon, dates from 1272–77, and the Great Mosque of Sivrihisar in Eskişehir from 1274–75. Inside, each has multiple rows of wooden columns.
The Ahi Şerafettin (Aslanhane) Mosque in Ankara was built in 1289–90 and the Eşrefoğlu Mosque of Beyşehir in Konya in 1296–99. Some of the mosques keep late 13th-century minbars made with the kündekari technique.
The latest, the Mahmut Bey Mosque in the village of Kasaba in Kastamonu, was commissioned in 1366 by Mahmut Bey of the Candarid house and is also known as the mosque without nails. The five mosques were placed on Türkiye's Tentative List in 2018 and inscribed as a World Heritage site in 2023.
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