INTERNATIONAL 8th USBİLİM EDUCATION, ECONOMY, MANAGEMENT AND SOCIAL SCIENCES CONGRESS
AN ANCIENT SANCTUARY: DYARBAKIR ULU MOSQUE
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Akademik Paylaşım Platformu Publishing House - APP Publications
Silk and spice routes, the two most important transit routes of East-West trade since the early ages, pass through the region in which Diyarbakır is located. For this reason, different nations and belief groups have existed in Diyarbakır. Diyarbakır, which is almost a city of civilizations with its features, has many architectural structures, each of which is a masterpiece in its own right. One of these is the walls of Diyarbakır and the other is the Great Mosque. The Great Mosque, also known as Cami-i Kebir, is one of the first largest and oldest temples in Anatolia. Ulu Cami continues to be a subject of curiosity with its unknown aspects as well as its features. Travelers who came to Diyarbakır expressed its fascinating splendor. In this context, the oldest known source of information about the Great Mosque is Nasir-ı Hüsrev, who visited Diyarbakır in the mid-XI century. Evliya Çelebi, who visited Diyarbakır in the 17th century, provides interesting and detailed information about the Great Mosque and describes it as the city's “hundred waters”. However, Evliya Çelebi describes this temple as the Great Mosque of Halab, the Umayyad Mosque of Damascus, the Al-Aqsa Mosque of Jerusalem, the Al-Azhar Mosque of Egypt and the Hagia Sophia of Istanbul. In this context, Evliya Çelebi uses the expression “There is such a spirituality in it that if a person prays two rak'ahs, his heart witnesses that it is accepted” to express the spirituality of the Great Mosque, which is accepted by the people as the 5th harem-i sharif. In this study, the place of the Great Mosque in the historical process, the 97 view of travelers and the society towards the temple, the architectural structure of the temple, the repairs it has undergone, the people assigned to the temple within the framework of archival documents and the foundations allocated to the temple will be discussed.
