Historic Buildings
Çorum's Seljuk and Ottoman heritage: mosques, bathhouses, madrasas, castles, caravanserais, bridges, dervish lodges, clock towers and civil architecture.
Çorum and its districts carry a dense architectural heritage stretching from the Danishmendid and Seljuk periods to the last century of the Ottoman era. The mosques and baths of İskilip and Osmancık, the Sinan Pasha Complex in Kargı, the madrasas of Alaca, the clock tower in the provincial centre and the traditional Çorum houses are its main stops. Buildings are grouped below by type; the full list for each group is on the matching category page.
Mosques
All →Abdalata Mosque and Tomb
A stone mosque and adjoining two-domed tomb in Abdalata village, Çorum, dated to the Seljuk period; the earliest endowme…
Alaca Old Mosque (Çarşı Mosque)
Alaca's single-space stone mosque, also recorded as the Çarşı Mosque; sources date it to 1722 (Ömer Bey) and 1763 (Ömer …
Alören Village Complex
A small village complex in Alören, Mecitözü: a mosque with a 1899 date, a fountain and pool, a grain-hulling mill and a …
Büyük Cami (Grand Mosque)
A historic mosque on the Kızılırmak in Osmancık, also known as Ulu Cami/Beyler Camii; while local tradition credits Emir…
Çıkrık Village Mosque
A village mosque in Çıkrık, central Çorum, recorded by 1843; the sign over its door reads 1904, and the painted decorati…
Çorum Grand Mosque (Murad-ı Rabi Mosque)
A multi-domed grand mosque in central Çorum, with roots in the Seljuk era, repaired many times and renowned for its famo…
Doğla Village Mosque
A village mosque in Doğla, Mecitözü, documented in the 19th century; its painted dome bears the date 1946, and villagers…
Elvan Çelebi Mosque
A historic, square-plan mosque with a wooden roof in the village of Elvançelebi, dated 1555 and thought to have original…
Ergülü Baba Mosque
An Ottoman-era mosque built in 1530 by Ergülü Baba in Yörüklü, Sungurlu, notable for its square plan and dome on an octa…
Evlik Köyü Mosque
A square-plan, timber-roofed historic village mosque in İskilip's Evlik village, attributed to Akşemseddin's son and dat…
Hamid Muzaffer Paşa Mosque
Located in the Çöplü neighborhood of the Çorum bazaar and dated to the mid-16th century, the Hamid Muzaffer Paşa Mosque …
Han Mosque (Han Camisi)
Built in 1580 in Çorum's Tepecik neighborhood, Han Mosque is a classical-period structure of rubble stone with a square …
Hanönü Mosque
A historic mosque in İskilip whose inscription has not survived, notable for its square-plan cut-stone and brick body an…
Hilmi Efendi Mosque
A simple, rectangular, timber-roofed neighborhood mosque in Sungurlu's İsmet Paşa quarter, built by Hilmi Efendi in 1960…
İmaret Mosque
Located in Osmancık's Güney neighborhood, an early Ottoman inverted-T-plan mosque built as an imaret by Grand Vizier Koc…
İnayetullah Mosque
A mud-brick neighbourhood mosque with a timber minaret in Çorum's Karakeçili quarter, built by local people; listed in 2…
Kavşut Mosque
Located in Sungurlu, Çorum, Kavşut Mosque is a rectangular-plan historic place of worship dating to the Seljuk period, n…
Kubbeli Cami (Domed Mosque)
Located in the Yavru Turna neighborhood of central Çorum, this square-plan, single-domed mosque has an unknown construct…
Kulaksız Mosque
Located in Çorum's Yavru Turna neighborhood, the Kulaksız Mosque is an Ottoman-period building of the wooden-pillared gr…
Mecitözü Grand Mosque
The Grand Mosque (Cami-i Kebir) of Mecitözü, attributed to Avkatlızade Hacı Ali Ağa; sources date it to 1754-55, with a …
Mihri Hatun Mosque
A historic mosque in Kargı's Karakire Village, built by Sultan Murad IV in memory of his wife Mihri Hatun, of which only…
Obruk Village Mosque (Mehmet Dede Obruk)
A stone-walled mosque in Mehmet Dede Obruk, Dodurga, registered in 1998; the district's only registered architectural mo…
Oğuz Köyü Mosque
An Ottoman-era village mosque in Oğuz Köyü in Çorum's Kargı, with a single-domed plan dated to the 16th century by its s…
Oğuzlar Çarşı Mosque Minaret
The minaret of the Çarşı Mosque in Oğuzlar, left standing when the mosque was demolished in 1975; the inventory dates it…
Registered Wooden Mosques of Central Çorum
Five registered mosques with wooden ceilings in central Çorum: the Kunduzhan (Tabak), Kellegöz, Kale, Çakır and İnayetul…
Şeyh Muhiddin Yavsi Mosque
A 15th-century mosque with two domes on drums, located in İskilip's Meydan Çarşısı and built by Şeyh Muhiddin Yavsi, the…
Sinan Paşa Külliyesi (Complex)
An early Ottoman complex in Kargı built by Sinan Paşa under Bayezid II, comprising a mosque, madrasa, primary school, ba…
Tabakhane Mosque
A historic mosque in İskilip, built in the 15th century by Şeyh Habib and known for its wooden dome and marble-framed en…
The Çantı (Log-Built) Mosques of Bayat
Three nail-free, log-built (çantı) mosques made by village craftsmen between 1965 and 1971 in Bayat's forest villages: Y…
The Historic Mosques and Shrines of Bayat
A guide to three inscribed historic mosques and nine shrines (türbe) in and around Bayat district, with the best-documen…
Üçköy Mosque
Built by Ali Paşa in 1897 and registered as a protected heritage asset in 1983, Üçköy Mosque has a timber dome and stone…
Ulu (Büyük) Mosque (İskilip)
A rectangular-plan historic mosque in İskilip, built in 1839 by the master architect Çöcükçüoğlu Hasan Usta, modeled aft…
Ulu Cami (Sungurlu Grand Mosque)
A historic Ottoman mosque in the Sungurlu district, built by Mehmet Sungur Bey in 1762, known for its main dome and bric…
Velipaşa Mosque (Abdülbaki Paşa Mosque)
A timber-framed mosque in Çorum's Gülabibey quarter, dated to the early 17th century; a plaque reads Hijri 1060. Registe…
Yeni Mosque (New Mosque)
An Ottoman-era neighborhood mosque in İskilip, built in the 18th century by Kazasker Cafer Efendi, with a square plan, a…
Bathhouses and thermal springs
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Ali Paşa Hamamı (Bathhouse)
A historic Ottoman bathhouse in Çorum's central Kunduzhan neighborhood, built in 1573 by Ali Paşa, Beylerbey of Erzurum,…
Beke Hot Spring Bath (Beke Kaplıca Hamamı)
Located near Figani Village in the Mecitözü district, the Beke Hot Spring Bath is a domed structure built of rough-hewn …
Güpür Hamamı (Bathhouse)
A historic Ottoman bathhouse in central Çorum, across from the Ulu Cami, dated by its style to the 15th-16th century and…
Hacı Hamza Hamamı (Bathhouse)
An early Ottoman-period bathhouse in İskilip, built of rough-hewn stone and commissioned by Sinan Paşa in 1514.
Hamamlıçay Hot Spring
About 12 km from central Çorum, a thermal spa with separate pools for women and men, water reaching 42 °C, used for ther…
Koca Mehmet Paşa Hamamı (Bathhouse)
A historic Ottoman bathhouse in Mecitözü, built by Koca Mehmet Paşa together with a mosque and laid out as a double (twi…
Mihri Hatun Hamamı (Bathhouse)
An Ottoman-era double bathhouse in İskilip, built together with the Mihri Hatun Mosque. It survives today as thick-walle…
Paşa Bathhouse (Osmancık)
A 15th-century Ottoman bathhouse in Osmancık, one of two commissioned by Koca Mehmet Paşa, that has survived to the pres…
Paşa Hamamı (Taceddin Bathhouse)
An Ottoman-era bathhouse in the Kunduzhan district of Çorum's market quarter, built as a double bath in 1484 by Taceddin…
Sinan Paşa Hamamı (Bathhouse)
A classical Ottoman bathhouse in İskilip, Çorum, built by Sinan Paşa, vizier of Sultan Bayezid II, as part of the same e…
Sungurlu Historic Bathhouse
A single-domed Ottoman bathhouse beside Sungurlu's Ulu Cami, recorded as built by Mehmet Sungur Bey in 1756; a 2012 repo…
Madrasas
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Akşemseddin Mosque and Medrese
Of the mosque and medrese built in Osmancık by Akşemseddin in the 15th century, only the cut-stone domed classroom with …
Eski Sıhhat Mektebi (Old Health School)
A historic building in central Çorum, built in the Neo-Classical style between 1908 and 1914, home to various schools an…
Hüseyin Gazi Madrasa
A historic madrasa located about 3 km south of the Alaca district, dating to the 13th-century Seljuk period and notable …
Kalehisar Medrese (Behramşah Medrese)
A madrasa near Mahmudiye Village in Alaca, whose architectural style identifies it as a 13th-century Seljuk building at …
Sinan Paşa Sıbyan Mektebi (The Stone School)
A square-planned, vaulted stone primary school in Çorum's Kargı district, built during the reign of Bayezid II as part o…
Castles
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Boğazköy Castle (Büyük Kale)
The Büyük Kale in the Hittite capital of Hattuşaş (Boğazköy) is a major archaeological site known for its royal palace a…
Çorum Castle
A square-plan historic castle in the Kale neighborhood of central Çorum, rising on a hill that commands the city and bui…
Hacıhamza Castle and Caravanserai
In Hacıhamza, a town belonging to Kargı, an Ottoman castle built in 1723 under Ahmed III, enclosing a complex of a mosqu…
İskilip Castle
Built atop a roughly 100-metre-high natural rock mass in central İskilip, this historic castle was used in different era…
Osmancık Castle (Kandıber Castle)
A castle in Osmancık, built on a natural rock at 275 m above the Kızılırmak, also known as Kandıber Castle and attribute…
Caravanserais
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Sinan Paşa Han (Caravanserai)
A single-chamber vaulted han in Kargı, built in 1506-1507 by Sinan Paşa, vizier of Sultan Bayezid II, together with a mo…
Veli Paşa Han (Caravanserai)
Built by Veli Paşa, a lord of Yozgat; rebuilt in 1915-1916 after a 1914 fire, then restored in 2022 to house the Çorum C…
Dervish lodges
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Garib Baba Dervish Lodge
A lead-covered, domed dervish lodge located about 30 km from Sungurlu, between the villages of Hilalli and Çavuşçulu, vi…
Meymanlı Dervish Lodge
A dervish lodge in the village of Meymanlı in Çorum's Sungurlu district, whose founding remains uncertain as its inscrip…
Yediler Dergahı (Yediler Lodge)
A historic dervish lodge in Sungurlu, also known as Yedi Kardeşler, whose founder and date of construction remain uncert…
Bridges, towers, mansions and other buildings
Historic Mansions of Çorum
Çorum's listed historic mansions in the center and İskilip: Veli Paşa Konağı, Katipler Konağı, Bilaller Konağı, Çatalkar…
Ahmet Dede Shrine
The Ahmet Dede Shrine on a hill above Laçin; sources record a wooden shrine in 1899 and stone foundation remains on the …
Baltacı Mehmet Paşa Fountains
Built in 1705 by Grand Vizier Baltacı Mehmet Paşa, said to have been born in Osmancık, in the name of the four caliphs —…
Bilaller Konağı (Mansion)
A listed civil-architecture mansion in Üçtutlar, restored with OKA support; since 2021 it has housed the Çorum Provincia…
Çatalkara Kültür ve Sanat Evi (Culture and Art House)
In İskilip's Temenna area, a historic house restored for painter Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu; today home to art workshops, a ch…
Çorum City Museum
Opened in 2024 inside the Veli Paşa Hanı, Çorum City Museum is a Ministry-approved private museum tracing the city's his…
Çorum Clock Tower
A 27.50-metre historic Ottoman clock tower of yellow cut stone in central Çorum, built in 1896 by Yedisekiz Hasan Paşa a…
Çorum Government House
The Çorum Governorate building, built in 1960-1966 after the Old Government House burned in 1956, and the Historic Çorum…
Demirşeyh Mausoleum
A square, domed tomb in Demirşeyh village, Sungurlu, built with reused stones; an iron mass lying over the grave is desc…
Dodurga: The Shrines of Mehmetdede and Hüssem Dede
The Mehmetdede Shrine in Dodurga's Mehmetdedetekke village, and the Hüssem Dede Shrine in Çiftlikköy — two Alevi-Bektash…
Elvan Çelebi Zaviyesi (Lodge)
A historic structure in Mecitözü built in 1352 by Elvan Çelebi, son of Âşık Paşa; one of Anatolia's earliest lodges, tod…
Fazlalar Konağı
A historic mansion owned by İskilip Municipality in the Ulaştepe neighborhood; a DOKAP-approved project aims to restore …
Hitit Köprüsü (Hittite Bridge)
A historic structure at Ambarlıkaya, discovered by Prof. Dr. N. Naumann, dated to the 13th-century BC Hittite period and…
Hıdırlık Mosque
A domed Ottoman mosque in central Çorum at the Hıdırlık locality, built in 1889 during the reign of Sultan Abdülhamid II…
Houses of Çorum
Two- to three-story timber-frame and adobe mansions that reflect Çorum's traditional vernacular architecture, with their…
İkiz Konak Boutique Hotel
Çorum Municipality restored the historic twin mansion İkiz Konak in Kale Mahallesi into the city's first boutique hotel,…
İstiklal Primary School
A cut-stone school in central Çorum, built in 1913-1915 as the Mecidiye Mektebi and renamed İstiklâl Primary School in t…
Karadonlu Can Baba Shrine
In Oğuzlar (formerly Karaören), a shrine attributed to Karadonlu Can Baba, an Anatolian holy figure said to have lived i…
Katipler Konağı (Mansion)
A central-hall mansion built in 1878 on Alaybey Street; restored in 1995 and converted into a listed restaurant serving …
Koyun Baba Bridge
A multi-arched historic Ottoman bridge over the Kızılırmak in Osmancık, built in 1484-1489 under Bayezid II and named af…
Koyun Baba Mausoleum
Built on an octagonal plan in Osmancık in 1469 by order of Sultan Bayezid II for the Anatolian saint Koyun Baba, whose o…
Mecitözü Government House and Clock Tower
Mecitözü's historic Government House, still used today as the district governorate building, and its adjoining clock tow…
Mecitözü's Historic Public Buildings
Two public buildings in Mecitözü dating to the late Ottoman period: the former Military Recruitment Office, now the Cult…
Redif Barracks (Redif Kışlası)
Located in the İskilip district of Çorum and dating to the early 20th century, the Redif Barracks is a rectangular, thre…
Sakarya Primary School
Ordered in 1925 and completed in 1926 as a three-story wooden building, this İskilip primary school is a registered hist…
Sungurlu Clock Tower
A late Ottoman clock tower in Sungurlu, built in 1892 by District Governor Edip Bey, with an ashlar square-prism body an…
Taş Mağaza (Stone Store)
On Hürriyet Sokak in Çepni, Taş Mağaza is a late-Ottoman commercial building with a basemented, two-storey plan faced in…
Taş Mektep (Misaki Milli Primary School)
Built in 1922 in İskilip's Meydan neighbourhood, Misaki Milli Primary School — known as Taş Mektep, 'Stone School' — is …
Tepecik Old Police Station Building (Abbasoğlu Konağı)
Officially named Abbasoğlu Konağı but known as the Old Police Station, this late-19th-century building was restored in 2…
The Municipality Building
Built as a library in the early years of the Republic, this two-storey, neo-classical cut-stone building now serves as Ç…
Veli Paşa Konağı (Mansion)
A timber-and-mudbrick mansion built in 1923-1924 in Tepecik by Veli Paşa's son Şevket Bey; today it houses Çorum Municip…
Yazmalı Konak
In İskilip's Temenna area, a restored guest house displaying doors collected from old houses; promoted in 2013 as "Türki…