UNESCO World Heritage Committee registered five mosques dating to the medieval era in Turkey as World Heritage sites during its 45th session, which was held in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These wooden mosques are located in the Anatolian cities of Konya, Eski\u015fehir, Afyonkarahisar, Kastamonu and Ankara.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After the ancient city of Gordion was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO on Sept. 18, Konya’s Bey\u015fehir E\u015frefo\u011flu Mosque, Eski\u015fehir’s Sivrihisar Ulu Mosque, Kastamonu Ko\u015fu Village’s Mahmut Bey Mosque, Ankara’s Ahi \u015eerefeddin (Aslanhane) Mosque and Afyonkarahisar\u2019s Ulu Mosque are now on the UNESCO World Heritage list, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe registered our series of cultural assets on the UNESCO World Heritage List for the first time. After Gordion, the wooden pillar and beam mosques of Anatolia, which date back to the Middle Ages, became a World Heritage Site. We increased the number of cultural assets on the list to 21,\u201d said Turkey\u2019s Culture and Tourism Mehmet Nuri Ersoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
UNESCO World Heritage Committee registered five mosques dating to the medieval era in Turkey as World Heritage sites during its 45th session, which was held in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. These wooden mosques are located in the Anatolian cities of Konya, Eski\u015fehir, Afyonkarahisar, Kastamonu and Ankara. After the ancient city of Gordion was …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":96739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[5482],"class_list":["post-96738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-five-mosques-added-to-unescos-heritage-list"],"yoast_head":"\n