WOODEN CEILING MOSQUES in GÜMÜŞHANE

As one of the stops of the silk road and has a strategically location, gümüşhane, the traces of the artifacts and architectural structures can be fallowed in gümüşhane because of being one of the stops on the silk road and it’s strategically location but unfortunately none of the mosques before the ottoman period could exist in present day. the mosques in the ottoman period are wooden ceiling mosques shaped by regional characteristics. there are 12 mosques of this type which represent the traditional mosque architecture in gümüşhane. wooden ceiling mosques can be broken into two parts according to their foundational plans. the first group of these has load-bearing timber structures in the middle. the second group ceilings are directly placed on walls. in the second group, mosques have just undivided space because ceilings are directly placed on walls. some of the mosques and small mosques were renovated by ferroconcrete in recent restorations.