With its uneven terrain, the Black Sea of Turkey region Often its residents are forced to come up with Creative architectural solutions. The terrain isn’t always what drives imagination of designers of buildings in Scattered areas with sparsely populated with Mountains stretch along the coast. for builders of Mosque in City of Insel in Gerson County, Research for Code for resulted from their hometown in minaret of The new being mosque designed to resemble a samovar.
Giresun is not particularly known as the “tea center”. of turkey. This honor belongs to Rize, another Black Sea province where tea production is main business. However, the city of Insel in province, known for We are proud of our delicious nuts in Five tea factories and residents’ dedication to this Turkish custom nationwide.
with this in mind, a group of benefactors in Attractive city on Black Sea Coast set out to me build Mosque back in 1987. Certified Building on donations and took 35 years old due to the exquisite designer touches that adorn the mosque. a unique A cream-colored minaret that can be distinguished from others since its formation like samovar, however, already Attracts visitors.
The “Green Mosque” is surrounded by a lush landscape that is sometimes broken by a building Here and there, but its strange minaret is what took more Than four years to build, much longer than traditional The minarets that adorn the country’s mosques are listed out. The mosque is now partially open for worship as workers continue to lay down final touches on exterior.
Ayhan Tofanoğlu, head of Founding of the Association for Building of The mosque, according to Anadolu Agency. on The Sunday they sought build A commendable mosque for that it beauty As our ancestors did.” Tofanoğlu, who also They worked as a construction worker in the mosque, they said they worked on tiny details of All made of stone block up The mosque. For the minaret, we brought different colored stones from different places. Green stones are pulled out in from the neighboring town of Oren. The yellow stones are brought from Bayport County and the red stones are collected from Corton Stream.” says.
Insel is famous for tea and we wanted to be made more known for her acting in Our mosque. samovar is also Code of Unity, collect a large number of people to drink tea like people together in complex for prayer in the mosque” added.
