Ahmet Hamdi Akseki Camii

Ahmet Hamdi Akseki Mosque stands at the Bilkent junction on the Eskişehir road, next to the campus of the Presidency of Religious Affairs and across from Bilkent station on the M2 metro; it is named after a former president of religious affairs. The architect is Salim Alp; the foundation was laid on 19 November 2008 and the mosque opened on 19 April 2013. According to the Diyanet it has 80,000 square metres of enclosed space and a courtyard of over 20,000, with room for 5,000 worshippers inside; the dome rests on four great piers and the four minarets are 66 metres tall with an eight-pointed star section. The design draws on Anatolian Seljuk architecture, with eight- and ten-pointed Seljuk stars repeated throughout, and no chandelier was used. The calligraphy is by Hüseyin Kutlu. It is open to the public.