Wooden supported mosques in Afyonkarahisar

Afyonkarahisar is situated on a natural road route due to its geographical location. It is located at the crossroads in the transitions to the other regions as far as the transitions from Central Anatolia to the west. As of today, Afyonkarahisar's location maintains its importance as it used to be in the past. The oldest known name of Afyonkarahisar is Akronio in Greek texts. It is adverted as Akronium in Roman sources, and Akroenos in Byzantine sources. It was named as Karahisar-ı Devle in Seljuk and Ottoman times, and changed to Afyonkarahisar after the declaration of the Republic. It can be observed that, from this town which were under heavy reconstruction activities during the Sultanate of Rum, Beyliks, and Ottoman period, some works have survived until our times and some works have been destroyed. The chronological history of Afyonkarahisar, the place and importance of wood and timber in human history, and the development of wooden-supported mosques in Anatolia are given in the 'Introduction' section of this work. Ten mosques, which we have identified in the 'Catalogue' section via publications and on-site examinations, have been examined in terms of their architectural and decorative features and compared with similar structures in Anatolia. In the 'Evaluation and Conclusion' section, the structures have been evaluated both in-house and in comparison with other examples in Anatolia, and the place of architecture, decoration and plan features in Anatolian-Turkish Architecture has been tried to be determined. In the catalog section, after each structure, the volume of publications related to this structure has been given under the heading 'Bibliography' and these publications has been collected at the end in the section of 'Bibliography'.