ISHAK BEY (ALACA) MOSQUE

 

Ishak Bey Mosque, one of the oldest monuments of the Turkish era, located in Skopje, North Macedonia, was built between 1438-39.

 

Alaca Mosque is named after the mottled hand-drawn motifs that decorate its facade and the dome bracelet. The exterior facades of the mosque are decorated with colored pencil works in a rectangular shape. In the interior decoration, there are unique landscapes of Ottoman period cities and Mecca. The mosque formed the İshak Bey Kulliye together with the inn, imaret, madrasah and tomb in its early times, but the structures other than the mosque, which is the core element of the complex, do not exist today.

 

The mosque, whose restoration started in 2016, was completed and put into service at the end of 2019.