Hacı Musa Camii

Hacı Musa Mosque, now inside the central campus of Hacettepe University south-east of the Altındağ municipality building and reached by a stair from Talatpaşa Boulevard, was built according to its inscription by Seyfeddin, son of Hacı Musa; the date has been read as 1422, 1432 and 1490, and the TDV Encyclopaedia of Islam places the building in the 15th century. A rectangular mosque of mudbrick on a stone footing under a tiled roof, it has a porch of three pointed arches, carved wooden door leaves from the 15th century, a battened wooden ceiling painted with flowers, a moulded plaster mihrab framed by three bands and an original wooden minbar of its period; the mihrab and painted decoration have the character of the 17th and 18th centuries. It was restored in 1923, 1975 and 2006.