Burmali Minaret Mosque and Cumudar Tomb - Amasya

Burmali Minaret Mosque and Cumudar Tomb - Amasya

It is understood from the inscription in the form of an arch arch on the door of the mosque that it was built by two brothers. Said Ferruh one of these brothers Seljuk Sultan II. One of the viziers of Gıyaseddin Keyhüsrev is accepted as Necmeddin Ferruh Bey. His brother is Haznedar Yusuf. Construction date is 1242 according to the inscription. Today, the minaret of the mosque, which is named as the construction of its minaret and which Evliya Çelebi mentioned in her Travelogue as the Court Mosque, was made of wood. The minaret of the mosque, which was damaged in the earthquake of 1590 and the fire in 1602, was completely destroyed in the great fire of 1730. Instead, the minaret was made of stone in accordance with the strong stone structure of the mosque. After this time, this structure, which was formed by the grooves around the minaret, was called Burmalı Minaret and the mosque was called Burmalı Minare Mosque.

The mosque has a fairly rectangular plan except the minaret and tomb on both sides of the entrance. The thick and strong walls made of cut stone illuminate the interior of the mosque with four windows on the west and east sides and three windows on the south. Between the minaret and the tomb, the mosque is entered through an arched door in a large niche protruding outwards. The interior was divided into three sections with three columns (columns) arranged on both sides of the mihrab axis, and these columns were divided into three sections by connecting them to each other with pointed arches, which resulted in a total of nine sections. The middle three of these nine sections are covered with domes. Of the sections in the side rows, two of them close to the Qibla wall are crossed and the other sections are covered with barrel vaults. On the left side of the entrance there is an octagonal Cumudar Tomb. The mausoleum of Şehzade Cumudar, who served as the Minister of Anatolia in Amasya during the Anatolian sovereignty of İlhanlılar, was found here until it was put in the Amasya Museum.