Untitled - Kocaeli Büyükşehir Belediyesi

(Bursa) idaresi taraf›ndan, minaresi Minareci Muammer Yantar adl› ustaya
2000 y›l›nda yapt›r›lm›flt›r. ‹ç s›vas›n›n düzenlenmesi ifli 2004’te
tamamlanm›flt›r.
It is known that Kara Bali Bey ‹bn-i Ahmet who belonged to the offspring
of Sheikh Edebali, who was known as the intangible architect of the
foundation of the Ottoman Empire, built 1 mosque, 1 caravansary, 1
children’s school and a lodge for his staff in the area where Kara Bali
Mosque is now located.
The bathhouse is registered in line 346 of page 456 of the book number
629 in the archives of the General Directorate of Foundations. On the other
hand, part of the külliye of the mosque does not exist today. The Kara Bali
Mosque also holds historical importance.
In the telegram by Refik Bey, the local governor of Karamürsel during the
War of Independece, sent to the Western Front on November 14th, 1920,
it said: “I came to Karamürsel, the general economy of which covers four
thousand houses and is bigger than all other towns of the shore, with the
Gök Bayrak Battalion. I saw here that men were gathered in the school
and in the government office and houses and stores in the bazaar were
completely looted. I saw that looted goods were loaded to ships on the
shore by Greek soldiers. Also, Kara Bali Mosque was totally destroyed, its
lampions were broken and Quran books were violated. Twenty five percent
of the town population was picked off and slaughtered.” The dome of the
totally destroyed mosque was cleaned by the local people in 1927 after
Karamürsel was saved from the enemy invasion (July 4th, 1921) and the
first restoration activity which was lifting the roof was carried out by Recep
Bayrak who was locally known as “Gimpy” and its internal ornamentation
was completed by Süleyman Demirel and Süleyman Akgül from the village
of Osmaniye. The walls of the mosque were damaged after the big Marmara
earthquake of August 17th, 1999 and its minaret was destroyed. The
arrangement of its inner coating was completed in 2004.
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