Guide
According to the Hurufat registers this mosque in Kilis was built by Attar Hasan. Its courtyard, entered from the west, holds two cells that have since been renewed, an iwan, ablution taps and lavatories. The building itself is a small masjid of a single aisle running parallel to the qibla, covered with cross vaults, to which a porch was added later. A door on the axis of the mihrab leads into the porch and from there into the prayer hall.
The hall consists of two aisles parallel to the qibla, covered by cross vaults resting on two free piers at the centre and engaged piers at the sides. Although nine windows light it, the piers carrying the vaults are short, so the hall is low and dim. The mihrab is a plain niche, and to its right is a minbar of five steps; the minbar door has a low arch with muqarnas, with two engaged colonnettes on each of the piers carrying the door arch, and the seat has a small dome resting on four colonnettes. The minaret stands in the west wall of the hall on a rectangular base chamfered at the top, built of regular cut stone, with its door opening into the hall. Its shaft is short and cylindrical and its cap is stone and conical. Beneath the balcony are profiled mouldings with motifs running along them in a band; these fan-shaped motifs beneath the balcony are the single most important piece of decoration on the mosque. It is in the Deveciler quarter, formerly called Kazilca.
