Konya Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Uğur İbrahim Altay stated that Beyşehir Eşrefoğlu Mosque was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List after Çatalhöyük, which is one of the oldest known settlements in the world with its 10 thousand years of history, and said, "Visitors from both our country and the world will visit the inheritance of the inheritance from our glorious ancestors." I invite you to see this rare work. "May it be beneficial for our Konya," he said.
After the wooden pillar and beam mosques, which carry the architectural style of the Turks from Central Asia to the Horosan region to the present day, were included in the UNESCO World Heritage List, Beyşehir Eşrefoğlu Mosque was also included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.
Konya Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Uğur İbrahim Altay reminded that Konya has hosted many civilizations throughout history and emphasized that they are carrying out important work to protect these priceless cultural treasures and pass them on to the next generations.
Mayor Altay stated that they are very happy to have Beyşehir Eşrefoğlu Mosque added to the list after Çatalhöyük, which is one of the oldest known settlements in the world with its 10 thousand years of history and is on the UNESCO World Heritage List, and said:
“As a Metropolitan Municipality, our Konya, which carries deep-rooted traces of history in every corner, has been one of the most important centers of human history in every period. We were very happy that Beyşehir Eşrefoğlu Mosque was included in the UNESCO World Heritage list, following Çatalhöyük. I find it very valuable for our city to be included in the UNESCO World Heritage list in order to introduce and protect these historical values to a wider audience. I invite visitors from both our country and the world to see this rare work that we inherited from our glorious ancestors. “May it be beneficial for our Konya.”
Eşrefoğlu Mosque is the largest and original of the wooden pillared mosques in Anatolia. It is located in the İçerşehir District, in the north of Konya's Beyşehir district. Eşrefoğlu Mosque was built by Eşrefoğlu Seyfettin Süleyman Bey between 1296 and 1299, during the Eşrefoğulları Principality, as a complex with a tomb, caravanserai and bath.