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The mosque, located in the center of Ürgüp, on the road connecting Ürgüp to Nevşehir, gives the date of 1400. The building, which consists of a mosque and a madrasah, joined together, is also known as a prison mosque among the people because it was used as a prison. The structure, which was built with smooth cut stone, has a rectangular plan in the east-west direction. There is a low-arched door in the iwan on the axis of the eastern façade of the building, and a fountain in the pointed-arched niche adjacent to the mosque wall to the south of the door. With the low-arched door, the passage to the madrasah, which forms the eastern part of the building, is provided. The madrasa, which reflects the plan scheme with an open courtyard, is surrounded by a portico from both sides, to the north and south. The madrasah rooms were placed in the same way. Today, one of the rooms in the south of the madrasah, which has four classroom rooms in the north and three rooms in the south, has been converted into a toilet. With the low-arched door on the axis of the west wall of the madrasah, the passage to the mosque is provided. The sanctuary has a rectangular plan in the north-south direction. The sanctuary is divided into two stages perpendicular to the mihrab wall, with arches thrown in the same direction on two piers placed in the north-south direction. Although both naves are covered with pointed vaults, a dome is placed on the axis of the western nave.
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