St. Teresa Church

St. Therese Catholic Church is located in Kardeşler Street, in Ulus district of Ankara. The most important part of the church building is the chapel on the first floor, all parts of which were restored in 2002. The main mosaic of the building was inspired by the Cappadocian churches and was made by the French artist Hervè Vital. On the right side of the main mosaic are depicted two great kings, David, who was promised Christ to be his descendant, and Solomon who built the Holy Temple. On the left is the Blessed Virgin with Child Jesus in his arms, on the right is the Christ holding the Bible in one hand and blessing with the other. The mystery of the Eucharist is told in the heart of the cross made by Madeleine Diener. The chapel’s light is due to the stained glass on the side of the columns. Six of these stained glasses were produced in 1914 by D.P. Dagrant in Bordeaux.

Hacı Bayram Veli Mosque and Tomb

Located next to the Augustus Temple in Ulus, the mosque was built between 1427-1428 upon the wish of Hacı Bayram Veli. It has a longitudinal rectangular floor plan, a stone base, brick walls, and a tiled roof. It was constructed in Seljuk architectural style and repaired by Mimar Sinan. Double balconied minaret rising on the southeast wall has a square stone base and has a cylindrical body of brick. Plaster mihrab rises from the ground to the ceiling. Interior walls are decorated with Kütahya ceramics up to the level of the low windows. Tomb of Hacı Bayram is located next to the southern wall of the mosque.

International Protestant Church

The rites of the community established in 1990 by Christian Protestants living in Ankara continued in 1998 under a church roof in Çiğdem Neighbourhood of Çankaya district. Today, the Church continues to serve as a place where local and foreign Christians of Ankara worship.

İncili Mosque

İncili Mosque, located on Kuyumcular Street in the Rüstempaşa Quarter of Beypazarı city center, is a square-plan structure constructed of finely dressed stone. A wooden minaret rises on its northwest side. The western façade features two windows on each level, while the southern façade has three windows and the eastern façade has four windows. Access to the mosque is provided through a door on the northern façade, leading into a square-plan prayer hall covered with a wooden ceiling. On the southern side, there is a stucco mihrab and a wooden minbar. The building is covered with a tiled roof. According to the restoration inscription above the entrance door, the mosque was completely destroyed by a fire during the reign of Sultan Abdülhamid II and was subsequently reconstructed in 1901 by a benefactor named Abbas Zade Hacı Mehmed. The inscription band on the border of the mihrab bears the date 1816, which is considered to represent the original construction date of the mosque.

Kalender Veli Tomb

Tomb, built in the name of Shah Kalender Veli in the south of Çubuk district and in the village of Sele in Hacılar Deresi Valley, is a masonry structure with an octagonal prismatic body and covered with a dome. The entrance to the tomb, which is made of cut stone and spolia, is from the north facade. The building is covered with a pyramidal roof, but its porch carries a hipped roof. The tomb and the annex buildings in the north are of rough freestone.

Kalecik Tabakhane Mosque

It is understood from the inscriptions inside the mosque that it was built between 1905 and 1907. Built on a sloping land, the mosque has a square plan, a hipped roof, and a wooden ceiling; the body walls are built of smooth cut stone. Except for the small rectangular window on the mihrab, all the windows are arched, and the upper ones are small, the lower ones are large. The mosque was repaired in 2006.

Aladdin Mosque

The mosque, located inside the Ankara Castle and built in 1197, is one of the oldest mosques of the city. The walls were made of cut and rubble stone, covered with a plastered tile roof. The single-balcony minaret rises in the northwest corner. Alaaddin mosque is important especially for its pulpit, antique column capitals found in the narthex and repair inscriptions on the gate

Killik Mosque

According to its inscription, Killik Mosque, situated in Hacı Veli Street of Ayaş, was built in 1560. The rectangular mosque is covered with a tile roof. The main walls made of rubble stone are fortified by bonding timber. Known to have earthen roofs in the past, the mosque today has a hipped roof covered with Turkish tiles. The wooden minaret in the northeast corner of the mosque was added to the mosque later.

Hacı Musa Mosque

The mosque, located in Gündoğdu District, was built in 1432. It is a roofed structure with a longitudinal rectangular plan, conspicuous by its wooden parts. The structure is made of mud brick on a stone base and has a Turkish style sloping tile roof. The mosque’s minaret is in the west of the narthex. To the right of the minaret is a fountain built in 1867 by Hafize Sultan, daughter of Hacı Satılmış.

Mosque of Gökçeören Village

The mosque was built in the late 19th century. The main walls of the mosque, which is made of cut stone, has a roof covered with tiles. It has a wooden ceiling. There is an open congregation place to the north. The minaret of the mosque is in the northwest corner. The wooden ceiling covering the harim is decorated with geometric and floral motifs painted in various colours. The most striking feature of the building is the beauty of its woodwork. The mosque was repaired by the General Directorate of Foundations in 2006.

Old Bucuk Mosque

The building is dated to the 16th or 17th century according to its architectural features. The rectangular mosque is covered with a tile-covered hipped roof. There is a tomb adjacent to the north facade. The western and southern facades of the building is made with proper ashlar stone: the eastern and the northern facades, where the tomb and the building meet, are of rubble stone. All the walls are plastered and whitewashed. The mosque was renovated by the General Directorate For Foundations in 2006.

Melike Hatun Mosque

The mosque was opened on 27 October 2017 in Ulus. There is a congress hall, foyer area and parking lot under the mosque, which covers an area of 3,600 square meters, including a section for women. The domed mosque, where approximately 7 thousand people can pray at the same time, has 4 minarets. The mosque, where wooden and nail-free kundekari (the technique of placing small pieces of wood side by side to form a design) doors are installed, has a main entrance, two side entrances, 12 minaret doors and an imam room door and 38 window shutters. There are inscriptions engraved with gold leaf, mother-of-pearl, vineyard and ivory on the entrance doors of the mosque, which has 17 narthex domes.