TRABZON GEÇ DÖNEM OSMANLI KIRSAL CAMİLERİ HARİM KAPI KANATLARININ SÜSLEME PROGRAMLARI ÜZERİNE BİR MONOGRAFİ

On the art of ornament in the literature, it is mainly within the mosque structures that the Anatolian Turkish ornamentation art is examined over certain historical periods; visual, structural, technical and semantic aspects. Therefore, no research has been found on determining the ornamentation preferences on the same type of doors of the religious buildings built in a specific region and period. This gap in the literature forms the general framework of the study and defines its purpose. The study examined how the ornamentation understanding of the harim (prayer hall) door wings of the late Ottoman period mosques constructed between 1800-1960 in the region extending from Baltacı Stream to Akhisar Stream Valley in the countryside of Trabzon province, and how the motif and pattern preferences changed in the chronological process. Among the qualitative data collection techniques in the research, which is in the "Change Monographs" type of the "Descriptive Studies" group, document analysis, photographing, and an interview was made, and twenty-four structures were selected from a hundred and fifty-two mosques by way of judgmental sampling determined on site. The fact that mosque structures in the region mainly feature floral motifs on the door wings of the harim, some masters use a motif only once, and this situation continues for generations, and that the ornamentation preferences are similar in various dimensions among the nearby valleys is among the remarkable findings. The study has shown that the regional understanding of ornamentation of a period can be read through the door wings of religious buildings.