Ferecik, Musa Çelebi Câmii

Musa Çelebi, the son of Yıldırım Bayezid, built the mosque in Feres on the Turkish border between 1410-13, when he was active in Western Thrace. In 1667, Evliyâ Çelebi, who traveled to the region, reported the building it as Yıldırım Bayezid Han oğlu Sultan Mûsâ Çelebi Câmii. After the exchange in 1923, it was converted into a church. In the 1925 photograph taken at the dedication ceremony of St. Nicholas Church, it is seen that the facades of the mosque are unplastered and cut stone. The mosque, which originally had a minaret, a gable roof and yet no dome, was converted into a church and its architectural features, especially its facades, were changed. The roof was reshaped and the minaret was demolished and a bell tower was added. The satellite image of the mosque, one of the early Ottoman buildings, shows that it was built in accordance with the qibla angle of Feres (145.190).