Gravestones in graveyard of Nasuh Çelebi Mosque in Biga-Gümüşçay

Biga, which has been chosen as a location area for centuries thanks to its favourable climate and geographic conditions, is located in the South part of Marmara region and acts as a transcontinental bridge. The gravestones which take place in the graveyard of Nasuh Çelebi Mosque which is located in Biga town of Çanakkale- Gümüşçay Municipality is the major part of our study. Gravestones were examined by metod such as photographing, estampage, chalking in the graveyard of Gümüşçay Nasuh Çelebi mosque and the inscriptions of the headstones that are engraved in Ottoman Turkish have been latinized by reading at the burial place and digitally. Except rustic stones total of 109 graves between the 12th and 14th centuries based on the Islamic calendar and the general characteristics of each headstones and graves were presented in the first part of the study. According to the calendar the Gregorian calendar, the graves, which belong to 18th 19th and 20th centuries were subjected to typological examination in the second part of the study. While some of the graves have both headstone and footstone, it is understood that only headstone or footstone of some graves have reached today. In the third part of the study, the evaluations of decoration and calligraphy on the inscriptions have been completed.