Şakirler Camii

About Şakirler Camii

Şakirler Camii is an Ottoman-period mosque inside Alanya Castle, on Esat Burcu Sokak in Tophane Mahallesi. According to the Ministry of National Education venue guide it is a square, single-room mosque of cut stone under a pitched roof. It stands on a slope in the Orta quarter of the castle, from which it takes one of its names, and locals also call it Gücüoğlu Camii or Orta Cami. The Ankara Kuyud-u Kadime Archive records it as the mosque of Kasım Fakih in the Orta quarter. Its door opens to the north beneath a four-line inscription. The mosque has been repaired at various times and was registered as an immovable cultural property requiring protection in 1999.