ERZURUM CAFERİYE MOSQUE

The subject of this research is the Caferiye Mosque located in the center of Erzurum. Caferiye Mosque located on Cumhuriyet Street in Erzurum is a 17th century Ottoman structure that was initially designed as a social complex, but in later years it only survived as a mosque. Caferiye Mosque located on Cumhuriyet Street in Erzurum was initially designed as a social complex. The social complex is a 17th century Ottoman social complex consisting of a mosque, a religious asylum, a madrasah, a school, a bathhouse, a graveyard, a fountain with nine pipes and toilets. Only the single-domed mosque, the school, the religious asylum and one of the fountains adjacent to the garden wall have survived to the present day. In the five-line Naskh inscription on the entrance gate of the mosque, it is stated that it was built by Hacı Cafer, son of Ebubekir, the officer of the Erzurum Treasury Mukataa during the reign of Sultan İbrahim in 1055 AH - 1645 AD. The property was taken under protection by the decision numbered A-188 dated 13.11.1976 of the High Council of Antiquities and Monuments. In this study, the history, characteristics and importance of the Erzurum Caferiye Mosque will be presented as a source research, observation and a situation determination study by utilizing the sources in the scientific literature.