Guide
The mosque of Emir Hacı Hıdır Bey stands in the Cuma quarter, the oldest part of Soma, and was built in 1791. It is a wide rectangle in plan, built of cut and rubble stone with brick used in places.
The porch for latecomers has a wooden ceiling carried on twenty-five wooden posts, two of them at the doorway. The entrance itself is marble, made in the baroque manner. The minaret stands apart from the building, with a round shaft on a rectangular base.
What the Directorate General of Foundations singles out is the painting inside. It calls the motifs and wall decoration here rare in Anatolia, carrying the traces of the passage from the art of the miniature to modern painting.
The range is wide: depictions of the Kaaba, plant motifs, geometric shapes, scrolling branches, naturalistic flowers, coats of arms and motifs resembling scallop shells. Above the windows, on the women's gallery, on the minbar and on the preacher's chair are flowers and bouquets rising from vases and ewers, set within cartouches. Brown, red, off-yellow and green dominate.
