Baklan Boğaziçi Mosque

Eski Mosque (Eski Cami) located in the Boğaziçi Neighborhood of Baklan town was built approximately in 1772 (Hijri 1181). The mosque, which has an aesthetically rich appearance with its interior decoration with floral and geometric motifs and wall paintings consisting of architectural depictions, is one of the rare examples reflecting the art of painting developed in Anatolia in the second half of the 18^th century. The ceiling and wooden poles of the rectangular planned mosque are adorned with spectacular hand-drawn ornaments. The mosque, in which Turkish wood, ornamentation and carving art is carefully used together, amazes with its ceiling, arch and column embroidery.