TASARIMDA ERKEN DÖNEM
CAMILERDE GÖRÜLEN MIHRAP
DUVARINA PARALEL GELIŞEN BIR
HARIM TASARLANDI.
THE PRAYER HALL IS PARALLEL TO
THE ‘MIHRAP’ WALL AS SEEN IN EARLY
ISLAMIC ERA MOSQUE PLANS.
Bodrum kat planı / Basement floor plan
1- Teknik hacim / Technical space 2- WC-duş / shower
3- Koridor / Corridor 4- Depo / Storage 5- Abdest alma, bayan / Ablution, women
6- Abdest alma, erkek / Ablution, men 7- Hol / Hall 8- Temizlik odası / Cleaning room
9- WC, bayan / women 10- WC, bay / men 11- İmam odası / Room for the imam
architect Hilmi Şenalp. This mosque was heavily criticized
for its lack of integration with the already meager public
space of the existing urban setting and its historicist
plan-façade scheme that baldly repeated the design of
one of the architect Sinan’s master works, the Selimiye
Mosque, Edirne of 1574.
With the upswing in religious construction in Turkey,
the history of modern mosque design has also become
a topic of discussion in advanced professional and
academic circles in the country. Successful examples
by Turkish architects such as Cengiz Bektaş’s Etimesgut
Mosque, Etimesgut, Ankara, 1967, Behruz Çinici and Can
Çinici’s Grand National Assembly of Turkey Mosque,
Ankara, 1986-89 and Vedat Dalokay’s Kocatepe Mosque,
Ankara, 1957, competition winning first prize proposal
(not constructed yet inspired Dalokay’s design of the
King Faisal Mosque in Islamabad, Pakistan in 1970)
are cited as the leading examples of modern Islamic
religious architecture in Turkey.
NEW DIRECTIONS IN MOSQUE DESIGN IN TURKEY
Zemin kat planı / Ground floor plan
1- Avlu / Courtyard 2- Çim alan / Grass area 3- Havuz / Pool 4- Musalla taşı / Musalla stone
5- Ayakkabılık / Shoe cupboard 6- Harim / Pray hall 7- Minber / Minbar 8- Mihrap / Mihrab
A mosque completed in 2006 in a suburb of Turkey’s
capital Ankara can be added to the list of successful
examples of religious Islamic architecture in the region
in the last 50 years. Hüseyin Bütüner and Hilmi Üner
designed the modern Mogan Lake Mosque, Ankara,
2006 during their partnership of Artı Design, which
disbanded in 2007. The mosque located on the Mogan
Lake, 25 kilometers south of the Ankara city center
within the district of Gölbaşı with a population of
110,000, shows the possibilities of modern architecture
aligned to environmental and public space needs in
contemporary religious architecture. The architects,
eschewing nostalgia, instead designed the mosque from
a foundation in modern architecture, yet with respect
for the traditional mosque typology and local values in
line with an advanced view of public space and ecology.
This was especially significant in the environmentally
important Mogan Lake area that has globally recognized
ecological features with its 60-hectare recreation area
including a 20-hectare natural park that is home to 226
species of birds that draw birdwatchers to this natural
breeding-ground.
The Mogan Lake Mosque was constructed in 2006 next
to the Mogan Park outside of Ankara in one of the new
suburbs of the city. The architects’ goal was to design
a modern mosque as a re-evaluation of the historic
development of the mosque typology in the context of
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