Archival Documents Relating to Suhara Village Mosque in Çıldır District of Ardahan

Abstract

During the researches we conducted on the historic mosques in Ardahan, we reached Ottoman documents, dating to the Ottoman period and the period of Czarist Russian rule, which are related to the historical mosque, located in Suhara Village of Çıldır district. These documents, which have not been published until now, concern the studies in art history by shedding light on topics such as the history and construction processes of the building. Thus, this mosque, which is registered in the Ottoman archives with the name Kanberzade Mosque, is named after the family known as Kanberzadeler in Çıldır. On the other hand, these documents are valuable historical documents with the clues provided by Çıldır, a province in the Ottoman state, regarding the administrative structure, population, social structure and common social life. In this article these documents are published by means of transliteration, while information about their content and the importance they carried in the context of the ways in which they provide an insight into the history of a town mosque in Anatolia are given.

Keywords

• Ardahan
• Çıldır
• Suhara Köyü Camii
• Sanat Tarihi
• Arşiv Belgeleri