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🕌 Wooden Hypostyle Mosques of Medieval Anatolia

Museums, Memorials & Monuments Türkiye Asia

🕌 Wooden Hypostyle Mosques of Medieval Anatolia
Eşrefoğlu Mosque, Beyşehir, Türkiye


🕐 3 min read · Updated 2 Apr 2026 at 16:01

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📌 Fast Facts
  • Constructed in the early 13th century under the Seljuk dynasty
  • Built almost entirely of timber, including walls, columns, and roof structure
  • Located in Beyşehir, central Anatolia (37.683467°N, 31.718608°E)
  • Remains in active use as a functioning mosque and place of worship

The Eşrefoğlu Mosque in Beyşehir represents one of the finest surviving examples of timber-based religious architecture from medieval ...

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