GÜRCİSTAN’IN ACARA BÖLGESİ’NDE OSMANLI DÖNEMİ VE SONRASI ÇANTI CAMİLER HAKKINDA GENEL DEĞERLENDİRME
GENERAL EVALUATION OF WOOD TIMBERFRAMING MOSQUE IN THE ADJARA REGION OF GEORGIA DURING AND AFTER THE OTTOMAN PERIOD

Summary/Abstract: Adjara, located in the south of the Caucasus, is one of the historical regions of Georgia. Providing the transition between Anatolia and the Caucasus, Acara stands out with its rich cultural texture that has developed due to its strategic location. The region, inhabited since ancient times, had its antiquity during the Roman period (1st century BC) by Colchis (9th-8th century BC), Greeks (Hellenes) (7th6th century BC), Pontus (4th century BC), Lazika (Eğrisi). It had its brightest period in the Middle Ages and became a scene of the the political conflicts of civilizations such as Byzantine-Sassanid (6th century AD), SeljukGeorgian (11th century), Ottoman-Safavid (17th century) and Ottoman-Russian (19th century). The region adopted Christianity by Saint Nino of Cappadocia (4th century) and Islam with the arrival of the Ottomans in the region in the 16th century. Accordingly, mosque architecture in the region was shaped under the influence of Turkish and Georgian art. The subject of this article is the research entitled “General Evaluation Of Wood TimberFraming Mosque in The Adjara Region Of Georgia During And After The Ottoman Period”. The wooden mosques, which constitute the content of the article, were detected in the field studies carried out between 2018-2021. Within the scope of the field study, 55 wooden mosques in the region were examined and inventoried. Traditional mosques, located in the Adjara Region of Georgia are in the districts and villages of Kobuleti, Helvachauri, Şuahevi, Keda and Hulo. According to Ottoman period archive records and inscription information, they date back to the period between 18-20th centuries. Most of them belong to the Ottoman period, and few of them belong to the Tsarist and Bolshevik periods. Mosques are located in village settlements built on sloping topography. Mosques, considered on a neighborhood scale, resemble residential architecture at first glance. The buildings were generally built on sloping lands, on a masonry basement, with two floors, wide eaves, four-shoulder hipped roofs, and entirely using the wooden pitch technique. Mosques are compatible with each other in terms of plan and space and mostly have rectangular or square plans. Although rare, there are dual-function plans that include a mosque and a madrasah.

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