Guide
The mosque of Hacı Murad-ı Veli is in the village of Seydi in the Eldivan district of Çankırı: a plain building of rubble stone under a timber roof, with the mosque and the tomb inside the same structure. Neither carries a foundation inscription, so when they were built is not known. Since Hacı Murad-ı Veli died in 1207, the tomb must have been built after that date and the mosque added later. What stands now is the result of maintenance and repairs at various times.
The mosque is a long rectangle with a flat wooden ceiling, under a tiled roof that covers the tomb section as well. The painted decoration on the inner walls was done in 1951 by Ali Usta of Tosya. At the south-west corner there is a chamfer with eight courses of sawtooth brick eaves.
The tomb adjoins the east wall. Its front room, square with a wooden ceiling, holds the cenotaphs of Hacı Murad-ı Veli's son and daughters together with two meteorites that local people regard as sacred. The tomb proper, where his own grave is, is square and covered by a dome on squinches.
Architecturally the building has no great distinction. What brings visitors is whose tomb it is — Hacı Murad-ı Veli is counted among the Horasan Erenleri — and it draws a good many, particularly in summer from people who come to make a votive sacrifice.
