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About Mardin Grand Mosque

Mardin Grand Mosque, that is from architecture samples of Artuqid Period and being the image of Mardin with its sliced dome and minaret, had been constructed with minarets according to records. The epigraph, that's on a squared bedplate of minaret that offers today, suggests building date as 1176, however gift minaret became constructed with a brand new and eclectic style in the years 1888/ 89. Some Assyrian authors that the mosque was transformed from a church. It’s feasible that an antique church offered at its location, even it changed into now not converted from church.

The building reflects basic functions of the architecture of Artuqid Period inside the 12th century. It’s an essential example of mosque plan and form, which emerged in southeast in earlier length, with the shape that is domed in the front of mihrab and transverse progressing. The cloth of the building is cut stone. The dome of Grand Mosque become constructed with external fluting method. It turned into firstly utilized in that building after which have become this kind of way of life in Mardin that it is a characteristic in a few later length Artuqid buildings. The square courtyard of the mosque is at the north of the constructing.

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