Konursu Grand Mosque in Konursu, Bayburt, one of the most beautiful examples of woodworking built without using any nails, has been serving for 203 year.

Konursu Grand Mosque is built over a sloping land in square shape in Konursu town in a 15 km distance to city center. The mosque rises over four wooden supports, has a wooden ceiling, and reflects regional architectural characteristics. The wooden materials used in construction are interlocked skillfully without using pins and glue.

Konursu Grand Mosque has been serving as a house of prayer for Muslims for two centuries. The mosque reflects most beautiful examples of woodwork with its lap streaked ceiling; gathering-place, minbar and preaching platform made of walnut tree as a piece of art of Turks’ thousands of years of tradition brought from Middle Asia to Anatolia.