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The İmaret Mosque stands southeast of the Saraçhane Mosque in Bolu. The endowment records show it was built in the sixteenth century by Şemsi Ahmet Pasha, of the line of Kızıl Ahmed Bey, though the repairs it has undergone over time have cost it much of its original character. It has a painted wooden ceiling dating from the reign of Abdülhamid II.
The mosque is rectangular, its walls laid in alternating courses of four rows of brick to one of stone. Besides the horizontal brick courses, bricks were also set vertically between the stones, so that each stone sits within a brick frame. In the middle of the north front is an entrance space that was evidently closed off later. The windows are arranged in two levels: below, rectangular, framed in stone with blind arches; above, pointed-arched with plaster tracery. Over the main door, in two cartouches one above the other, is written in thuluth the invocation that asks the opener of doors to open to us the door of good. The brick minaret stands at the northwest corner, and the mosque is covered outside by a hipped roof with corbelled brick eaves.
