The mosque stands in a village fifteen kilometres from Akçakoca, built by Hemşin people who came from Artvin after the Russo-Turkish war of 1877. It is among the best examples of the çantı type — timber walls built up from horizontal logs notched into one another at the corners, without nails.
The two floors are built differently. The first is stonework and the second uses the çantı technique. The mosque is close to 150 years old.
Its minaret is wooden as well, and what draws attention inside is the work on the ceiling, the mihrab and the minbar.
Getting there
- Access
- Coming from İstanbul or Ankara, carry on 34 km from Düzce towards Akçakoca; Hemşin village, where the mosque stands, is 15 km from the centre of Akçakoca.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Düzce as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 3.8 °C in January to 22.5 °C in July; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June, July, August and September; rainfall is heaviest in December (101 mm) and lightest in July (47 mm). Long-term means for 1959-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
