Guide
Research indicates that the Kozluca Mosque in Gaziantep was built in the nineteenth century. It is a plain rectangular building of cut stone, and the unusual thing about it is that the minaret stands inside the mosque rather than outside. The round-arched gate from the street into the courtyard keeps its original iron grilles above it, and there are two pointed-arched windows on the same front. There is no porch.
The entrance front is built in two colours, in the dark stone and the chip stone of the region. The mosque door is round-arched, with pointed-arched windows and iron grilles on either side; inside, the mihrab faces the entrance, with the original carved wooden minbar beside it and two pointed-arched windows on each side. Two original cupboards survive on the east wall of the interior. The ceiling is an original trough ceiling with its own painted decoration and log beams, with boarding beneath them. The minaret, set into the space at the northwest corner, is cut stone on a twelve-sided plan, with original muqarnas and tilework beneath the balcony and original wooden balcony railings. The mosque is single-storey and seven metres high, with outbuildings of one storey three metres high. It is within walking distance of the city centre.
