157 thousand People Visited the Historical Eşrefoğlu Mosque in Konya in 6 months

It was reported that 157 thousand 590 people visited the historical Eşrefoğlu Mosque in the Beyşehir district of Konya in the last 6 months of 2022.

It was reported that 157 thousand 590 people visited the historical Eşrefoğlu Mosque in the Beyşehir district of Konya in the last 6 months of 2022.

In the statement made by the Beyşehir District Mufti, it was stated that a total of 157 thousand people visited the place of worship in the last 6-month period covering the July-December period of 2022 in the measurements made with the digital measurement device placed in the 723-year-old Eşrefoğlu Mosque in Beyşehir, which is considered to be the largest of the wooden pole mosques in Anatolia.

In the statement, it is emphasized that the historical place, also known as the 'mosque without nails', is also on the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Temporary List, "Different aspects of our mosque, which is being worked on by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism to be included in the permanent list, are also discussed. One of them is to determine the number of incoming visitors. In this regard, a digital measuring device was installed in our place of worship. With this measuring device, the number of people coming to the mosque is now measured monthly, weekly and daily.

After the installation of the measuring device, the first visitor numerical data started to be received as of July 2022. Between July and December of the previous year, 157 thousand 590 people visited our mosque."

In the meantime, in the statistics recorded, it was reported that the average number of daily visitors of the historical mosque in the specified 6-month period was 856, the average number of visitors on Friday was 49 thousand, the number of visitors on weekdays was 93 thousand 371, and the number of visitors on weekends was 64 thousand 219.