{"id":6194,"date":"2017-10-25T14:56:34","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T11:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/?p=6194"},"modified":"2020-05-20T06:22:38","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T05:22:38","slug":"ancient-wooden-mosque-showcases-turkish-craftsmanship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/ancient-wooden-mosque-showcases-turkish-craftsmanship\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient wooden mosque showcases Turkish craftsmanship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6195\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/ancient-wooden-mosque.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/ancient-wooden-mosque.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/ancient-wooden-mosque-340x255.jpeg 340w, https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/ancient-wooden-mosque-400x300.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>An 800-year-old wooden mosque in northern Turkey is proving that good craftsmanship and skill can stand the test of time.<\/h2>\n<p>The Gogceli Mosque in Samsun province\u2019s Carsamba district was assembled without using nails, screws or glue in 1206.<\/p>\n<p>Amazingly, this is no relic or museum. Turkey\u2019s oldest wooden mosque is still in service and serves as a place of worship for 300 people five times every day.<\/p>\n<p>A strong example of Anatolian architecture, the walls were built in such a way that even eight centuries of tremors in earthquake-prone Turkey have failed to damage it.<\/p>\n<p>The mosque\u2019s imam, Ahmet Ozkose, told Anadolu Agency local legend claimed it was built in the time of Giyaseddin Keyhusrev, a Seljuk Turk sultan.<\/p>\n<p>Ozkose says scientists came to visit in the 1990s; they took samples from the wooden walls and proved the building &#8212; now officially registered as a site of cultural heritage in Turkey &#8212; was over eight centuries old.<\/p>\n<!-- Either there are no banners, they are disabled or none qualified for this location! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An 800-year-old wooden mosque in northern Turkey is proving that good craftsmanship and skill can stand the test of time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"jnews_post_split":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,137,7,7867],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-sectoral","category-tourism","category-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8085,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6194\/revisions\/8085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}