Ibrahim Pasha Mosque
   Photo: Ibrahim Pasha Mosque

The first hit in Erzurum, unwittingly notice many small mosques, which can be found here literally every step. This is because the city is built in a seismically dangerous region peninsula of Asia Minor. By the end of the twentieth century buildings Erzurum consisted mainly of single- and two-storey buildings made of stone. If it is impossible to build a large mosque, local people built a lot of small ones.

Ibrahim Pasha Mosque, known as the average, and the mosque is located at the intersection of Prospect and Osmanpashi Ali Ravi. An interesting fact is that within a hundred meters of the Ibrahim Pasha is located six mosques.

The mosque looks like built from the same stone as the Erzurum fortress. Black gives the extraordinary beauty of the buildings in the region. Basalt is a solid rock of volcanic origin, which is easily processed. Widely distributed in the earth's crust, he became one of the major building materials in the area. Thanks to the durability (the breed is not destroyed by time) building, built of basalt many tens of centuries ago, came in a very good condition to this day.

The mosque was built, as the inscription of four lines above the entrance, in 1748 on the orders of Haji Ibrahim Ethem Pasha as a library and darulhadisa (School of Tradition). On the south side of the courtyard of the ensemble are the graves of Damat Ibrahim Pasha and his sons. Located in the same part of the room with a terrace designed for students in madrassas. It is known that when this small ensemble acted as a madrasa, a lot of people worked here.

In 1865, there were power and drinking fountain that were damaged during road construction. In years when an ensemble of elementary school was transformed into a mosque, it was built with one minaret Seref. Among the trees in the center of the courtyard of the mosque is shadyrvan. Floral motifs on the walls of the premises coincide with the architectural traditions of the era of tulips and increase their artistic value.

Domed mosque has three square-shaped dome, connected by arches. Outside the dome hides conical roof. Mihrab of the mosque is made of marble. The minaret is made of large stone, which is carved a balcony.

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