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İmaret Cami

TIME : 2016/2/19 2:48:18

Afyon's major mosque complex (five minutes' walk from Hükümet Meydanı) was built for Gedik Ahmet Paşa in 1472. The blue-tiled, spiral-fluted minaret decorations indicate Seljuk preferences, though Ottoman stylings are apparent. The eastern entrance, like an eyvan (vaulted hall), accesses a double-domed sanctuary (as in mosques at early Ottoman capitals Bursa and Edirne). The adjoining İmaret hamam retains its original stone basins and is still used.