Silivri Fatih Mosque

After the Ottoman Sultan Fatih Sultan Mehmet conquered Istanbul in 1453, many churches were converted into mosques; the place of worship that operates today as the Fatih Mosque in Silivri has gone down in history as one of these mosques.

Silivri Fatih Mosque, which was first built as a church, was the Alexios Apokaukos Church before being converted into a mosque. According to one story, after the Ottoman conquest of Istanbul, it was converted into a mosque and was named “Fethiye Mosque” to emphasize the conquest, not Fatih. However, the mosque is referred to as Fatih in current records.

The mosque, which also finds a place in Evliya Çelebi’s Seyahatname, is referred to here as the Hünkar Mosque. On the other hand, according to the records, all maintenance and repair work of the mosque was done by the Muslim people collecting money among themselves, but when the people left the castle and its surroundings and moved towards the coastline, the mosque remained neglected for a long time.

During the Balkan Wars of 1912-1913, World War I between 1914-1918 and the Greek occupation that followed, Silivri Fatih Mosque began to fall into disrepair and derelict. After the occupation, the building was first converted into a church and then back into a mosque, but when it fell into disrepair, it was demolished; today's Silivri Fatih Mosque was built in its place. The mosque, whose construction was completed in 1980, is open for worship today.