TY - JOUR TT - The Assessment of Silvan Great Mosque on Account of Its Plan and Benefits to the Anatolia Turkish Mosque Architecture AU - Çetin, Yusuf PY - 2008 DA - December JF - Atatürk Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi PB - Atatürk Üniversitesi WT - DergiPark SN - 1303-295X SP - 21 EP - 40 IS - 30 KW - Silvan Ulu Camii KW - Artuklu KW - Mimar Sinan KW - Plan N2 - One of the mostimportant constitutions of Artuqid mosque architecture Silvan Great Mosque islocated in the centre of Silvan. The reason why this constitution also known as“Selahattin Eyyubi Mosque” is its restorations and insertations being made inAyyubid’s time.  In the work of Ibn el Azrak ''Tarih-i Meyyafarıkin''which is the oldest source about the Silvan’s history clarifies that because ofbeing demolished in H.547/M.1152/ the dome of the mosque restorated inH.552/M.1157. So it is clear that the mosque is completed during the five yearstime among the years of 1152-1157 by Artuqid Necmeddin Alpi.Silvan GreatMosque has a function being a bridge from the middle Asia Turkish mosquearchitecture before itself and to AnatoliaTurkish mosque architecture after itself on account of its plan. Structureforms the first important step to pioneer the development of central localityby the view of collected locality of mihrap fore which is accepted as an Anatolia Turkish mosque discovery and a target from thebeginning. Its bringing up this development continues with Manisa Great Mosqueand develops magnificently with Mimar Sinan in Ottoman period. CR - Ş. Beysanoğlu, Anıtları ve Kitabeleri ile Diyarbakır Tarihi (Başlangıçtan Akkoyunlular’a Kadar) C. I, Ankara 2003. CR - A. Altun, Anadolu’da Artuklu Devri Türk Mimarisi’nin Gelişmesi, İstanbul 1978. UR - https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/atauniilah/issue//311361 L1 - https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/300986 ER -