@article{2015,title={ORIGINAL EXAMPLE OF CONVERTING BATHHOUSE INTO A MOSQUE: ESKİŞEHİR AK MOSQUE},abstractNode={Ak Mosque is located in Eskişehir’s Odunpazarı district in the area where architectural texture of Seljuk and Ottoman periods are partly protected. This construction reflects an unique chronology of usage connected with change of function in Anatolian Turkish architecture. The neighbourhood is named after the mosque where it is located. The construction was originally built as a bathhouse and then it was transformed into a mosque. The construction had a plan of a Seljuk period bathhouse and its dressing section was converted into the main prayer hall of the mosque. Exact date of the convertion is not known but the presumed dates could be the lifetime of Ishak Fakih (1349-1440). The walls of the building was made of cutstones with brick beams indicate that the original bathhouse was constructed during the end of 13th Century or in the beginning of the 14th Century.},author={Erol ALTINSAPAN-- Canan PARLA},year={2015},journal={The Journal of Academic Social Science}}