Çelebi Sultan Mehmed Mosque

The Çelebi Sultan Mehmed Mosque (Beyazit Camii or Beyazıt Camii) is an Ottoman mosque in Didymoticho. In Greek archives the mosque under the name Bayezid Camii Camii or Mehmed I. appears

The mosque is located in the main square of the village. Sultan Mehmed I. left the mosque between 1420 and 1421 built by the architect Ivaz Pasha. Today it is the oldest mosque on European soil, their establishment falls before the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople Opel in 1453. The mosque consists of a rectangular prayer hall and a minaret. The floor area is 1000 square meters.

The fact that the building is not a dome but a pyramid roof has, and that the building a portico missing is for some scientists to prove that the building was not completed according to plan. Sultan Mehmed I died 1421st

As well as most early Christian buildings, the mosque is now in the possession of the State Council of Antiquities. The last covered with sheet metal roof was leaking, so that in 1998 about a diaphragm was raised, and finally the top of the minaret was destroyed by a storm, and falling debris caused cracks in the membrane. In an early session, therefore, the immediate start of a conservation practice reorganization was approved in November 2010, this takes currently ongoing. Problems are the wooden interior dome.