Grand Mosque of Erzurum
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Grand Mosque of Erzurum (Turkish: Erzurum Ulu Cami) is an historic mosque in Erzurum, Turkey. It is also called "Atabey Mosque" because the Saltukids were referred to as the “Atabey”.[1]
The mosque was built by Nasreddin Aslan Mehmed, the Emir of Saltuk, in 1179 CE, corresponding to 574 AH.[2] The mosque is shaped in the classic rectangular model of the pre-Ottoman Seljuk era.[1]
The mosque can hold up to 10,000 worshippers.