Painted Decoration On the Wooden Tribune Of Erzurum's Narmanli Mosque

Abstract

The Narmanli Mosque is in the Narmanli neighborhood of Erzurum, and it is located to the east of the Twin Minaret Madrasah. The last line of the four-line marble epigraph, prepared by Veysi Efendi and found at the entrance gate of the mosque, shows the year H.1111/C.1738 for its construction according to the abjad calculation. The mosque was built by Narmanli Haci Yusuf Efendi during the reign of Sultan Mahmud I (1730-1754). Its foundation was registered in H.1189/C.1775, long after the construction of the mosque. The foundation's owner is his father Salih. He took his grandfather's name.