Guide
Plainness is what strikes the eye inside the Ağa Mosque. The walls carry no ornament, only religious texts in frames.
The building is of masonry on stone foundations, raised in two storeys, and the minaret was added later. The mosque, said to be two hundred years old, is covered by a tiled roof and has no dome.
The ablution fountain that stood in the front garden was pulled down in 2001 and a new one built in the garden behind. The mihrab avoids excess and carries no tilework, only a little shaping in oil paint. The ceiling is boarded in wood, and the oval wooden ornament at its centre is worth attention.
Nothing certain is known about who had the mosque built or when. It is known, however, that the ground it stands on was once a graveyard, which was closed so that the mosque could be built there.
The single grave left in the front garden has a stone which, read closely, says that the man buried there was a soldier and a standard-bearer, that his name was Mustafa, and that he fell in 1774. The mosque was probably built before that date.
The road to it is asphalt and it can be visited in any season.