Çorum Üçköy Köyü Camii: mimari ve süsleme özellikleri
Çorum Üçköy Village Mosque: Architectural and Decoration Features

Summary/Abstract: This article aims to introduce the architectural and decoration features of Üçköy Village Mosque, located 40 km. from Çorum downtown area and named after the village, by employing Art History methodology and to compare such characteristics with similar examples in order to identify the standing of the structure in the Anatolian Turkish architecture. In this context, Üçköy Village Mosque has been visited and studied on-site after getting necessary permits from Çorum Governorate. Constructed at the center of the village, the mosque lacks any epitaph concerning its construction. According to the restoration epitaph present on the base of the minaret, the mosque has been restored in 1897. The structure is formed by an almost square shaped rectangular prayer place and the narthex to the north thereof and the minaret to the west of the narthex. The mosque’s covering system features an exterior hipped roof, an interior flat wooden ceiling and a lath and plaster dome in-between. A rather plain decoration program can be seen at the indoor space. Presence of the dome at the covering system as a symbolic element is a prevalent feature at both religious and civil architecture at Aegean Region, Marmara Region and Eastern Black Sea Region. However, the indoor spaces of the structures with lath and plaster domes observed at said regions are observed to have extensive decoration programs. Çorum Üçköy Village Mosque, on the other hand, represents a modest example of the structures with lath and plaster domes at the Central Black Sea Region by virtue of its prayer place as plain as possible in terms of decoration.

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