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The Hacılar Ezanı fountain stands within the central district of Edirne and was built by Ahmet Ağa in the Ottoman period. It takes its name from the prayer ground behind it, where those about to set out on the pilgrimage would gather, sacrifice an animal and give the call to prayer.
The building inscription on its face gives the year 1213 of the Hijri calendar, which the source renders both as 1798 and as 1789. A repair inscription on the same face records that Cezzar Mustafa had the fountain repaired in Hijri 1321, 1903.
The fountain belongs to the regional directorate of foundations in Edirne and was repaired in 2005 by the Edirne association for the protection of antiquities as part of its conservation work. It was registered as immovable cultural property requiring protection, in the first group, by a decision of the regional conservation board dated 4 July 2003.
The fountain is rectangular in plan, built of cut stone and marble, with a single face resting on projecting mouldings at either side. A round-profiled moulding runs along the faces at the level of those flat mouldings and at the same time separates the building and repair inscriptions on the front. Each of the two lower corners of the building inscription carries a medallion framed by plant motifs. The repair inscription below it, divided off by the moulding, runs down to the marble face stone, itself separated by another moulding. The marble face stone and the spout, set close to ground level, appear to have been added in a recent repair.
In the 2005 work broken and missing stones were repaired, the stone faces were cleaned and some parts were made up with plaster imitating stone. Because the road level has risen, the long trough of cut stone with its five compartments now lies below ground, and the trough seen today was added during that repair. The covering is now a flat roof sloping to the rear.
On the southern face the marble building and repair inscriptions are separated by a horizontal moulding. The building inscription is set in four lines and four columns, with inscribed medallions in its two lower corners naming the calligrapher who wrote it as Taşçıbaşızade Muhammed Refi. The repair inscription is written in two lines in the thuluth hand. The verse of the building inscription praises the fountain and its clear water and names Ahmet Ağa as the man who spent his wealth on it, seeking God's favour.
