At a glance
- Era
- The Gunpowder Empires
- Region
- Anatolia
In time
Overview
This mosque at Feres (Ferecik), on the Turkish-Greek border, was built by Musa Çelebi, son of Sultan Bayezid I, between 1410 and 1413, when he was active in Western Thrace. 1 Evliya Çelebi, touring the region in 1667, records it as the mosque of Sultan Musa Çelebi son of Yıldırım Bayezid Khan. 1 The author counts it among the early Ottoman buildings and notes from satellite images that it is aligned to the qibla. 1
Conversion
After the population exchange of 1923 it was made a church; a photograph of the dedication of the church of St Nicholas in 1925 shows its facades of bare cut stone. 1 Originally it had a minaret and a gabled roof without a dome; the conversion altered its features, especially the facades, renewed the roof, demolished the minaret and added a bell tower. 1
Connections
People and things also explored
Ketchaoua Mosque, Algiers· Sudak Castle Mosque, Crimea· Kiliseye Çevrilen Türk Eserleri (The Turkish Monuments Converted into Churches)· Memorial of Abdurrahman Abdi Pasha, Buda Castle· Abu Dulaf Mosque, Samarra· Achabal garden, Kashmir· Great Mosque of Adana· Afsarwala Tomb, Delhi
Sources
- Mehmet Emin Yılmaz, Kiliseye Çevrilen Türk Eserleri / The Turkish Monuments Converted into Churches, vol. 3 (Ankara: YTB, 2nd enlarged ed., 2023) , p. 1034
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Musa Çelebi Mosque, Feres (Ferecik)”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/building/musa-celebi-mosque-feres/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-04.
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