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Known locally as the Ulu Cami, the Hızır Bey Mosque in Eğirdir has no recorded date of construction; it is thought to have been built by Hızır Bey, who died in 1328, with masonry walls under an earthen roof. Three thousand people can pray in it at once. The detail worth knowing is a local solution to a local problem: part of the roof was deliberately left open so that snow gathering there through the winter could be pushed off, and a snow well was built inside the mosque.
The mosque burned in the fire that swept Eğirdir in 1814 and was rebuilt in its former manner by Yılanlıoğlu Sen Ali Ağa, the town's collector and garrison commander, with money raised from the townspeople. In 1883 its roof was covered with tiles, under the lead of Hacı Murat Ağa. The minaret stands in an unusual position: it was built over the gateway in the castle wall that forms the shared wall between the Dündar Bey Medrese and the mosque.
