Eğri, Çarşı Câmii

Bazaar Mosque was located in the lower suburb of Egre Castle by the Makla river (Eğri Stream). Evliyâ Çelebi speaks briefly about it as: “Makla river passes by the left side of Bazaar Mosque, it is a mosque that has a very crowded congregation.” With the end of Turkish domination in Egre, Bazaar Mosque was converted into a church by the Austrians on 18 December 1687. It is understood from the plan drawn one year after the Bazaar Mosque was converted into a church that the work was square in plan and probably domed. The apse was added instead of the altar after its conversion into a church. With the flooding of the creek next to the mosque in 1712, the structure was damaged and was repaired between 1715 -17. The present-day Baroque-style Minorite- St. Antuan Church was built in 1758-71 by the architect Killian Dientzenhofer. The church, which was built using the body walls of the Bazaar Mosque, is directly in the direction of the qibla.