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Kastamonu Kasaba Köyü Mahmut Bey Camii

Çandaroğlu Mahmut Bey Mosque in Kasaba Köyü.

This is a mosque that big part was made by wood and it is very rare. The mosque is very important because it was made in the Anadolu Beylikleri periode, in 1366. It is an important part of the Islamic architecture.

On that century the Ottomans just started to make an empire in a small part of anatolia (1299) and all other big part of Anatolia was controlled by a lot of small kingdom.

 

Read more about the mosque:

www.pbase.com/osmantanidik/kasabamosque

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Uploaded on August 22, 2008
Taken on July 5, 2008