Şeyh Fethullah Mosque

The Şeyh Fethullah Mosque stands in Gaziantep's old city center as the surviving place of worship from a larger Ottoman-era religious complex founded in the mid-sixteenth century, around the 1550s, by Şeyh Fethullah, son of Şeyh Abdüllatif. Two surviving endowment deeds, dated 1559 and 1564, along with a sultanic order from 1583, describe the original foundation as a külliye combining the mosque with a dervish lodge, a bathhouse, a school, a fountain structure, a cemetery and a residence for the sheikh's family, reflecting the layered social role such complexes played in Ottoman Anatolian towns. No inscription records the name of its architect. Records show the mosque was repaired as early as 1597. In the earthquakes of February 2023 the building suffered heavy structural damage; following a restoration that followed its historic design, it was reopened for prayer, keeping the centuries-old foundation active in the city's religious life today.