Kozluca Mosque

Kozluca Mosque is a nineteenth-century neighborhood mosque in the Kozluca quarter of Gaziantep's Sahinbey district, within easy walking distance of the city center. It is a single-story building on a rectangular plan roughly seven meters high, faced in cut stone that alternates bands of dark stone and pale limestone around the entrance. Its twelve-sided minaret, set at the northwest corner, is built of dressed stone and retains its original muqarnas carving and tile ornament beneath the gallery. Inside, the prayer hall keeps much of its original fabric: a timber barrel-vaulted ceiling painted with calligraphic decoration, exposed wooden beams, a carved wooden minbar, built-in wooden cabinets along the east wall, and arched windows protected by iron grilles. The mosque is listed as a site of faith tourism in Gaziantep and remains in active use.