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Birgi Grand Mosque

Ödemiş district, Turkey · built 1312

Birgi Grand Mosque (Aydınoğlu Mehmet Bey Camii), also called "Aydınoğlu Mehmet Bey Mosque", is a historical mosque in Turkey. The mosque is in the Birgi town in Ödemiş ilçe (district) of İzmir Province. Aydınids was an Anatolian beylik (principality) in the 14th century in West Anatolia. Birgi, now a village was the capital of the beylik. The mosque was commissioned by Mehmet, the first ruler of the beylik.

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