1. CULTURE

    1.1. Various Cultural Statistical Data (The year 2006)

2. Tourism

    2.1.  Revelries-Festivals
             2.1.1. International Folk Dances Festival
             2.1.2. Hıdırellez (Spring Festival)
             2.1.3. Water-melon Festival
             2.1.4. Wrestling at Bengü Karakucak
             2.1.5. Altın Fındık Oiled Wrestling
             2.1.6. Yaşar Doğu Revelry
             2.1.7. Traditional Wrestling and Horse Races at Güreşleri
             2.1.8. Yeşilırmak Culture and Arts Revelry
             2.1.9. Lake District Wrestling
             2.1.10. Geyikkoşan Hıdrellez Revelry and Oiled Wrestling
             2.1.11. Hüseyin Dede Revelry
             2.1.12. Neyzen Tevfik Culture Revelry
             2.1.13. Köprülü Mehmet Paşa Culture, Arts and Sports Festival
             2.1.14. Golden Rice Festival
             2.1.15. Gölyazı International Amazon Festival
             2.1.16. Black Sea Short Movie Festival
             2.1.17. Sea Games Festival
             2.1.18. Akdağ Plateau Revelry

    2.2.  Natural Sites
             2.2.1. Kızılırmak Delta (Fish Lakes)
             2.2.2. Simenit Lakes
             2.2.3. Hacı Osman Forest

    2.3.  Special Weeks
             2.3.1. 19 Mayıs Culture and Arts Week
             2.3.2. 25 Mayıs Culture and Arts Week

    2.4.  Culture-Folklore-Handicrafts

    2.5.  Immovable Cultural Property

    2.6.  Religious and Cultural Structures
             2.6.1. Religious Structures
                        2.6.1.1. Büyük Mosque
                        2.6.1.2. Yalı Mosque
                        2.6.1.3. Pazar Mosque
                        2.6.1.4. Kale Mosque
                        2.6.1.5. İsa Baba (Ese Baba) Mosque and Mauseloum
                        2.6.1.6. Şeyh Seyyid Kudbettin Mosque and Mauseloum
                        2.6.1.7. Kılıçdede Mosque and Mauseloum
                        2.6.1.8. İtalian Catholic Church
                        2.6.1.9. Süleyman Paşa Madrasah

             2.6.2. Cultural Structures
                        2.6.2.1. Architectural Features of Samsun Houses
                        2.6.2.2. Folk Music
                                      2.6.2.2.1. Folk Music Instruments
                        2.6.2.3. Handicrafts
                        2.6.2.4. Theater

    2.7.  Museum
             2.7.1. Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography
             2.7.2. Gazi Museum
             2.7.3. Bandırma Ship Museum

    2.8. The Place of the Province in the Tourism Sector

    2.9. Historical and Cultural Asset
            2.9.1. Monuments
                       2.9.1.1. Atatürk Monument
                       2.9.1.2. İlkadım Monument
                       2.9.1.3. Milli Mücadele Monument
            2.9.2. Mosques
                       2.9.2.1. Büyük Mosque
                       2.9.2.2. Pazar Mosque
                       2.9.2.3. Yalı Mosque
             2.9.3. Mausoleums
                       2.9.3.1. İsa Baba Mausoleum
                       2.9.3.2. Şeyh Seyyid Kutbittin Mausoleum
                       2.9.3.3. Kılıçdede Mausoleum
             2.9.4. Churches
                       2.9.4.1. İtalian Catholic Church
             2.9.5. Examples of Civil Architecture
                       2.9.5.1. Taşhan
                       2.9.5.2. Bedestan
                       2.9.5.3. Old Municipality
             2.9.6. Sites for Excursion and Promenade
             2.9.7. Beaches and Camping Places

1. CULTURE

There are 20 libraries in our Province. Totally, 198.594 books are present in these libraries. Of these libraries, 18 are public libraries and 2 are for children. Moreover, there are two museums in our province named Museum of Archaeology-Ethnography and Gazi Museum. In addition, the Book Store attained to Central Directorate of Circulating Capital Administration of Ministry of Culture is in service.

The performance halls, library and gallery sections and the administrative section of Atatürk Centre of Culture, whose construction has been completed, has been inspected and decorated and shall open new horizons to the arts and culture life of our region while greatly contributing to education, performing and conference services.

1.1. Various Cultural Statistical Data (The year 2006)

         Resource: İl Kültür ve Turizm Müdürlüğü

Attained to the Ministry of Culture; Samsun State Classical Turkish Music Chorus, Turkish Folk Music Chorus incorporated by the Province Administration of Culture (conducting activities as Chorus of Adults, Youth and Children), Turkish Art Music Chorus, Turkish Folk Dance (consisting of Adults, Youth and Children divisions) activities are conducted.

2. Tourism

Samsun is the ultimate gate of Anatolia that opens to Black Sea; a busy junction point on the transit way connecting Europe and Asia, and possesses the greatest water courses of Turkey. It is an important agricultural centre founded on a fertile delta between Kızılırmak and Yeşilırmak and a real natural paradise with its sea, forests and meadows.
Alternative tourism activities, an addiction for many people, as well as sea, sands and sun, the indispensible tourism trio, are performed in Samsun.
The natural beaches with lovely sands which are located along the coastal line from Yakakent to Terme are ideal for swimming. Green hills covered with pine groves extend to deep blue water on Yakakent Çamgölü locality. In the lovely coastal town of Yakakent, which enjoys a life which is one with the sea, is a spectacular sight with its unique beach.
The Kızılırmak Delta, which covers some of the lands of Alaçam, Bafra and 19 Mayıs Counties on the coastal line, is among the most interesting places of our country with its wetland flora and fauna. Galeriç Forest of deciduous trees, located on 19 Mayıs County, Yörükler locality, whose entire base is covered with water every spring is quite interesting from the point of wildlife.
Samsun also possesses important centres in terms of thermal tourism. Havza and Ladik thermal springs are health centres known for 2000 years. Two areas in Havza county, “25 Mayıs Thermal Tourism Centre” and “Havza Thermal Springs Locality”, have been declared as Thermal Tourism Centres. Hamamayağı Thermal spring in Ladik is among the primarly important and preferred thermal centres in our country. The water of Ladik Thermal Spring, who bears radioactive features has a stimulating effect on the organisms. Thus, the said water is called “the water of youth”. It has been medically proved that the water of Havza and Ladik Thermal Springs have a positive effect on the treatment of maladies like rheumatismal maladies, primarily, gynaecological diseases, neural diseases, joint problems and calcification.
Like other plateaus in Black Sea Region, the Plateaus of Samsun also are ready to embrace those who are thirsty for green, fresh air and silence. It is quite convenient to access to the plateaus of Samsun. Most Plateau roads are in such a good condition that one can even go to the plateaus by their personal vehicle. Ladik-Akdağ Plateasu, Vezirköprü-Mt. Kunduz Plateaus nestle beauties worth seeing separately in the summer and in the winter. The fact that Kunduz Plateaus are one with the texture of the forests and that the forest connect with the Altınkaya Dam Lake earn the locality an untold beauty. This place has quite convenient areas for hiking, water sports, fishing, motorboat tours, camping as well as plateau torusim. Moreover, there is an accommodation installation in the region. Plateau revelries have been made since 1997 on Ladik-Akdağ Plateau. Ladik has been declared “Akdağ Tourism Centre”.
Samsun attracts attention with its historical areas as well as its natural beauty. Cave-castle settlements in Tekkeköy, used as places of settlemen in Palaeolithic Age; Bafra İkiztepe, which has continuously been used as habitation since 5000 B.C., Asarkale, coming up to today since 3000 years ago, which is located in Bafra Kızılırmak Valley and whose fortification walls, galleries and stairs are still seen and sepulchres of the Paphlagones, Garpu Castle in Bafra Kızılırmak Valley which is related to the Amazons are worth seeing.
One can see the most beautiful examples of Anatolian Woodwork Architecture in Samsun. Göğceli Mosque in Çarşamba is the most interesting among them. Whereas the exact date of building of the structure, in whose construction not a single nail was used, is unknowns, it has been standing intact for approximately 800 years. .

2.1.   Revelries-Festivals

2.1.1. International Folk Dances FestivalUluslararası Halk Dansları Festivali
 
The festival is organized between June 16-31, within Samsun National Fair. Folk dance teams from various country and the country have been invited since 1986. It contributes to the reinforcement of cultural exchange and ties of friendship and promotion.

2.1.2. Hıdırellez
 
Hıdırellez, one of the seasonal festivals of the Turkish nation, is celebrated on the 6th of May like in every part of the country. It is considered as the beginning of the days of plenteousness and fertility in our people’s faith, feelings and thoughts and, thus, in its traditions and customs.

2.1.3. Water-melon Festival

It has been organized in Bafra county since 1987. It is celebrated in the final week of August, for two days with various amusements, competitions and activities.

2.1.4.Wrestling at Bengü Karakucak
 
It s organized in Bengü Village of Bafra county. First organized in 1994, the revelry is done for one day on the 10th of July.

2.1.5. Altın Fındık Oiled Wrestling

The revelry which began in Köybucağı town of terme County in 1986, are organized on the 9th of September every year.

2.1.6. Yaşar Doğu Revelry

Is organized in Kavak County primarily predominantly including wrestling.

2.1.7. Traditional Wrestling and Horce Racing in Karakucak

Is organized in Asarcık county in the closing days of September and on Sundays.

2.1.8. Yeşilırmak Culture and Arts revelry

It has been organized in Çarşamba county since 1994. It is celebrated in August or September with various activities.

2.1.9. Lake District Wrestling

Is organized in Ayvacık county in the summer time.

2.1.10. Geyikkoşan Hıdrellez Revelry and Oiled Wrestling:

Is organized in Alaçam county on the 6th of May.

2.1.11.Hüseyin Dede Revelry

Is celebrated in Alaçam county on the 7th of May.

2.1.12. Neyzen Tevfik Culture Revelry

It is organized in the memory of the famous satirist Neyzen Tevfik who was born in Kolay on 24 March 1879. It is celebrated in August.

2.1.13.Köprülü Mehmet Paşa Cultur, Arts and Sports Festival

The festival which begins on the first Friday of September in Vezirköprü County lasts for 10 days.

2.1.14.Golden Rice Festival

Is organized in Terme county. The festival which has been organized since 1991, is made for the famous big rice cultivated in the region on the 15th of September.

2.1.15. Gölyazı International Amazon Festival:

Is organized in Gölyazı Locality of Terme County within August. It is rumoured that the Amazons, the great female warriors lived around Terme stream around 1200 B.C.

2.1.16. Black Sea Short Movie Festival

It was organized in the central county for the first time in 1996. Whereas it is international, it is intended to be organized every year between March 23 -31.

2.1.17. Sea Games Festival
 
It is organized in Yakakent county. The date started is 1995. It is mad between June 22-23.

2.1.18. Akdağ Plateau Revelry:

It is organized in Akdağ Plateau within Ladikk county. First organized in 1997, the revelry is made every year in July.

2.2.  Natural Sites

It is organized in the memory of the famous satirist Neyzen Tevfik who was born in Kolay on 24 March 1879. It is celebrated in August.

2.2.1.Kızılırmak Delta (Fish Lakes)

In the fertile delta of Kızılırmak which has been fed by the sediments that have been carried for thousands of years also possesses Bafra Fish Lakes which are among the prime wetland ecosystems of our country. Kızılırmak Delta is one of our country’s rare internationally important wetlands with the variety of the species it hosts; rich living spaces for the living things and its still uncorrupted natural structure. On the area which is to the north of Samsun-Sinop road lies the 56.000 ha. wide delta plain. There is approximately a 17.000 hectare wetland with lakes, reeds, sand dunes, water-flooded plains on the east shores of the delta. 1.500 hectare wide Karaboğaz Lake and surrounding reeds are to the west. The variety oand numbers of bird species in the delta reveal how rich and healthy the ecosystem is for the living things. 318 bird species, 146 of which locally breed, have been detected up to now. The delta is also a very important wintering area for water birds. According to the midwinter bird water bird census, almost 100.000 water birds (goose, swan, duck, cormorant and ringed plovers) winter in the delta. As well as the small Passeriformes and water birds that cross the Black Sea via vehpe migration, raptors, storks, cranes and fish find a convenient feeding and accommodation environment in the delta. Whereas the region could offer only a two month period in the summer time for sea tourism, it has a four season bird watching and natur tourism potential. Consequently, “Eco-Tourism” facilities are quite high in the region.

2.2.2. Simenit Lakes

Since Terme Stream flowing towards Terme to Black Sea spreads to a wide area before it disembogues, it is observed engaging lakes form.

2.2.3. Hacı Osman Forest

Hacı Osman Forest, adjacent to Gelemen Farm in Tekkeköy County is the property of and under the protection of Directorate of Forest Exploitation. Of the 120 hectare land, 80 hectares are forest area, 40 hectares are cleared. The forest consists of ash tree, oak, hornbeam and silver birch species.

2.3. Special Weeks

2.3.1.19 Mayıs Culture and Art Week

It is organized in the central county by the Metropolitan Municipality. It is celebrated with various activities between May 16-19 since 1981.

2.3.2. 25 Mayıs Culture and Art Week

Organized by Havza Municipality on the anniversary of Atatürks arrival in Havza.

2.4. Culture-Folklore-Handicrafts

That Samsun, which is located on the intersecting point of Eastern and Western Black Sea Region, possesses an ancient civilization and that it has a variable structure due to the immigrations of XIX. and early XX. Centuries, results in its showing cultural differences.

Researches have been conducted in Samsun on weddings, folkloric cuisine, folk healers, folk veterinaries, circumcision feast tradition, lullabies, meals, preparations and food storage for the winter time, birth giving, rigmorales, death, kani, making the bride weep, riddles, sayings, myths, tales, games for spectators, beliefs, people’s calendar and meteorology, folkloric architecture, handicrafts, folk-dances, clothing and the results have been earned to the archives of General Directorate of the Research and Development of Folkloric Cultures of the Ministry of Culture.

2.5. Immovable Cultural Property

Tumulus-Mounds and Antique Settlementsı :
* Cedit District (Amisos) II. ve III. degree archaeological site.
* Dündartepe (Öksürüktepe) in Kılıçdede District I. ve II. degree archaeological site.
* Toptepe tumulus in Hasköy (one big and one smaller hills above Samsun-Çarşamba road in Municipality Houses District) II. degree archaeological site.
*Baruthane tumulus in İlkadım town (Two hills to the left of the asphalt road) I. Degree archaeological site.
* Great Kolpınar tumulusu (Located above Veterinary Management) I. degree site.
* Dedeüstü Hill in Küplüce Village located in the south of Samsun, Iron Age, Hellenistic, Roman Ages and Antiquity.
* Bağtepe in Küplüce village, First and Mid Bronz Age.
* Göktepe in Ahulu village, First and Mid Age, Iron Age.
* Akalan Fort between Çatmaoluk and Kulacadağ villages, Iron Age.
* Diklimtepe in Başalan Village, First and Mid Bronze Age.
* Kümbettepe in Alanlı village, First and Mid Bronze Age, moreover, findings of pottery from the Hellenistic and Turkish – Islamic Ages.
* Sazak Hellenistic Age Settlement in Büyükoyumca village.

2.6. Religious and Cultural Structures

2.6.1.Religious Structures

2.6.1.1. Büyük Camii

Bears various other names like Ulu Mosque, Hamidiye Mosque. Completed in 9 September 1884 by Hacı Ali of Batumi. Got repaired by Sultan Abdulaziz’s mother. Located in a large yard, has dual minarets made of hewn stone. The dual minarets have single balconies. It is the largest mosque of Samsun.

2.6.1.2. Yalı Mosque Is in Wheat Market. It was built by Sadık Bin Abdullah in 1312.

2.6.1.3. Pazar Mosque Is located in Pazar District in Hazinedar Zade Süleyman Paşa charity. It’s a 14th Century Ilkhan structure.

2.6.1.4. Kale Mosque In Goldsmiths market. It was built in the name of Emir Timurtaş Paşa, emissary of the Ilkhan in 1314. It has been transformed into a prayer mosque via reparatios. 

2.6.1.5.İsa Baba (Ese Baba) Mosque and Mausoleum Is located in Cedit District. It has managed to preserve its original form since the 15th Century. The structure, which consists of a small prayer room and mausoleum with a square plan was restored in 1895 and was transformed into a mosque and mausoleum in the last reparation in 1975-1976.

2.6.1.6. Şeyh Seyyid Kudbettin Mosque and Mausoleum The date the mosque was built is unknown. The mosque and the mausoleum are adjacent. Şeyh Kudbettin is among the great Islamic Scholars and combatants. He is the grandson of Abdulkadir-i Geylani (1078 – 1166 A.D.) and the son of Muhyiddin. He died on the 15th of Sefer Month of the year 722 of the Hegira Calendar and was buried here.

2.6.1.7. Kılıçdede Mosque and Mausoleum Kılıçdede Mosque is a new mosque built after the demolishment of the old mosque in Kılıçdede District.
The Mausoleum is a large, roofless grave surrounded with concrete and mosaics, located in the trees in the garden to the altar side of the mosque. It is rumoured that Kılıçdede came together with Şeyh Seyyid kudbettin and Isa Baba, participated in Seljuk wars between 1078 – 1116 and fell. It writes on the fore of the grave “here lies Kılıçdede the Conqueror”. The mausoleum is a place of wish visited by the people.

2.6.1.8. Italian Catholic Church is located in Ulugazi district. It was built in 1846. The building is a two-storey masonary.

2.6.1.9. Süleyman Paşa Madrasah Is close to Saathane. The foundation date of the building is 1813. Designed like a horse shoe, the building is a two-storey one built with brick masonary.

2.6.2.Cultural Structures

2.6.2.1. Architectural Features of Samsun Houses

The buildings’, who are mainly built as two storeys on the ground, exterior are birck masonary (stone masonary on some big structures) and the interior is lathwork. There is a balcony on the second floor. The balcony is carried by two (sometimes four) wooden or stone columns, and iron on some buildings. The hipped roofs are covered with roof tiles and the canopy bottoms are wooden. In the interior, there is a table in the middle, other rooms open to this room. The floor and the ceiling is wooden.  

2.6.2.2. Folk Music

Various alignments are seen in Samsun Folk music. Eastern Black Sea and Central Anatolian melodies and musical instruments are coherent in the region. The baglama and the fiddle (kemençe) are used together.

2.6.2.2.1. Folk Music Instruments

Are the drum, the horn, the pipe, the baglama, the cura (small baglama) and the fiddle (kemençe) The most famous folk song of the region is “Çarşamba'yı sel aldı. Bir yar sevdim el aldı."

2.6.2.3.Handicrafts

Handicrafts in the Province of Samsun are various and many. However, like in the rest of our country, handicrafts have unfortunately fallen against the developing technology and industry in our province as well, thus, a part of our hanficrafts, our traditional culture element, has been lost, corrupted or altered. Despite all the negativities, some of the handicrafts struggling for their existence like carpets and rugs, fabric, masonry, embroidery, shoemaking, woodcarving, copper engraving, straw fabric, basket weaving, sock making, sash fabric, woodcarwing etc. have been detected in our region. Today, though not common, production is still on for the purposes of using or need.

2.6.2.4. Theater

It is possible to see and evaluate the transition from the traditional theatre (puppets, karagöz, ortaoyunu (eulogy show)) to the western theatre in various times. Theatre exercise in Samsun commenced with the deployment of affiliations and local theatres under the leadership of the actors trained in the early years of Constitutionalism and the Republic, the mobile theatres and the artists sent to Istanbul. Moreover, it has been detected that the Community Centres which operated in the 1930’s included theatre exercise in their activities.

Along with these, theatre exercises with reinforcement from Istanbul has accelerated starting from the ‘60’s, activities have continued under the titles of local theatre organisations, Tatbikat Sahnesi, Oda Tiyatrosu.

2.7. Museums

2.7.1. Museum of Archaeology and Ethnnography

The Museum, founded in 1981 with the pieces of the old Province Museum, was opened on 19 May 1981 in the former fair area. The Museum consists of a central hall and two lateral halls built symmetrically. Mosaic artefacts found in Amisos are displayed in the central hall. On the mosaic base, the most eye catching work in this hall, various mythological scenes have been symmetrically embroidered.  
Artefacts from the Calcholithic, First Bronze Age, Hittite, Hellenistic and Roman ages are chronologically displayed in the hall located to the right of the central hall. In the other lateral hall, works of ethnographic quality that have been inherited from the Samsun locality, and Bindallıs  (embroidered clothes), napkins, boleros, money and chain watch bags, hand-written Korans, knickknacks, weapons, kitchen utensil, rugs, carpets etc. are displayed. Artefacts from the Hellenistic, roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman ages are displayed in the Museum yard.

2.7.2. Gazi Museum

Re-restored in 2006, Gazi Museum was enriched with the works of Atatürk and the wax statues of his 18 friens with whom he disembarked on Samsun on 19 May 1919 and re-opened to visitation.
The Museum is located on Mecidiye Street in Kale District. The two-storey sections are lathwork.
Atatürk accommodated in this building known as “Mıntıka Palas” when he came to Samsun on 19 May 1919.
The building was bestowed to the Great Leader by the people of Samsun during his visits to Samsun between September 20 – 24, 1924. Atatürk accommodated in this building when he came to Samsun on 16 September 1928 and 22 November 1930. Now used as a museum, the building includes a concert hall and a specialization library in which books about Atatürk is compiled.

2.7.3. Bandırma Ship Museum

Between the years 2000 – 2001, an authentic replica of the ship via which Atatürk arrived in Samsun on 19 May 1919 to start the Independence War was produced and placed on the Doğu Park shore to be used as a museum.

2.8. The Place of the Province in the tourism Sector

The historical and old settlements of Samsun and environs have been revealed as a result of the archaeological excavations conducted in these places. Today, ruined columns remain in the locality called Karasamsun that is in the plateau above the port.

Calcholithic and Bronze age artefacts have been found in the excavations conducted on Dündartepe. Lots have tomb remains have been found around Samsun. Tekkeköy caverns dating back to the Paleothic Age, located 15 Km east of Samsun are among the historical remains worth seeing.

Copper Age and Hittite settlements in Kaledoruğu in Kavak county, Oymaağaç Village of Vezirköprü county; traces of existence of the Bronze Hittite culture and evidence that the Hittites have travelled to the shores of Black Sea in İkiztepe, Hoşkademtepe, Dedetepe, Gökçeboğaz mounds between Bafra and Alaçam; and evidence that The Phrygians also paced to the Black Sea shores in the excavations conducted by the German archaeologist Markidi in Atalan Castle located 18 Km south of Samsun has been observed. 
  
There are Paphlagonia Rock Tombs (7th Century B.C.) in Kızılırmak Valley which is 35 Km away from Bafra. Remains of Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman ages are present here in Asar Castle.
Tourism positively effects the development of economy, especially industry; accelerates the domestic and foreign money – capital movements.

That the natural blanket is convenient and that it remains between Kızılırmak and Yeşilırmak Deltas renders our Province valuable in the field of tourism while that it lies on the transit road that connects Asia and Europe and that it is connected to every part of Turkey via air, sea, railway and roads make it an important accommodation centre.

Whereas there are a number of historical and touristic places to see in the counties and villages of Samsun, as well as the centre, the sea and sands can be enjoyed in the summer time while the Province is convenient for hunting in the winter time.

2.9. Historical and Cultural Assets

2.9.1. Monuments

2.9.1.1. Atatürk Monument

It was built by the Australian Sculptor Heinz Kreppel between1928 – 1931. There are figures symbolizing are engraved on all four sides of the stand of the Sculpture which was built for the memory of 19 May 1919. This monument, which has been the emblem of our Province is the world’s second.

2.9.1.2.İlkadım Monument

It was built by the Sculptor Hakkı Atamalı between 1981 – 1982. The triad of figures before the monument, which was got to built by the people of Samsun on the 100th birthday of Atatürk, symbolizes Atatürk and his companions’ first steps on Samsun and that the struggle for Independence started here.

2.9.1.3. Milli Mücadele Monument

It is on the Doğu Park coast, near Bandırma Ship-Museum. Along with the seven-figure monument, there are reliefs defining the phases of Independence War.

2.9.2. Mosques

2.9.2.1. Büyük Mosque

It was built by Hacı Ali Efendi of Batum on 9 September 1884. Since it was repaired by Sultan Abdulaziz’s mother, it is called Valide (mother) Mosque as well. Whereas the mosque is made of hewn stone, it has dual minarets. It was built in the form of small domes around a large, main adome. The dome frame is octagonal on the exterior and circular on the interior. The dome is decorated with plant and geometrical figures.  

2.9.2.2. Pazar Mosque

Built by the İlkhan  in the 14th Century, the Mosque was restorated in 1819. The mosque, built in a rectangular form, is covered with  a wooden roof. The altar is trihedral and the niche of the altar is curved.

2.9.2.3. Yalı Camii

it has been constructed by Sadık Bin Abdullah in the year 1312. The mosque that stands on an octagonal frame has a tronoped dome which is covered with tile, the inside and the outside of the Mosque is covered with brick and stone. It has a small dome.

2.9.3. Mausoleums

2.9.3.1.İsa Baba Mausoleum
This square shaped mausoleum contains the graves of İsa Baba and other Turkish combatants that fell during the conquering of the Anatolia and a small prayer room. It has been repaired by Memduh Bey, the grandson of the Haznedarzade Süleyman Paşa in the year 1815.

2.9.3.2. Şeyh Seyyid Kutbittin Mausoleum
Şeyh Seyyid, the grandson of the Great Islamic Scholar Abdulkadir Geylani, lies in this mausoleum. The history of this mausoleum is guessed to go back 700 years. This religious place that is a piece decorated with Kütahya tiles draws attention of the local people.

2.9.3.3. Kılıçdede Mausoleum
it is said that, Kılıçdede, Seyyid Kubittin and İsa Baba came together to Samsun and between the years 1078 and 1116 they have involved in Seljuk Wars. There are their mausoleums at the place where they fell.

2.9.4. Churches

2.9.4.1.Italian Catholic Church
This church was built in the year 1885 and currently continue its activities with a priest and is open for visits..

2.9.5.Examples of Civil Architecture

2.9.5.1. Taşhan

This two-story inn is a beautiful piece from Civil Ottoman architecture, built through the ends of the 17th century.

2.9.5.2. Bedestan

This place that belongs to the Early Ottoman Period is the place where old pieces and antiquities are sold in our day. It is now called as Bitpazarı.

2.9.5.3. Old Municipality

The outer surface of the building that was built by the prior mayor deceased Gebilizade Necip Bey between the years 1913-1914, is covered with Ünye stone and it represents a beautiful piece of art of carving and decoration. There is an ancient writing beautiful inscription made of marble at the corner of the third floor’s balcony.

2.9.6. Sites for Excursion and Promenade

Atakum- Adnan Menderes Boulevard
Coastal Road
Airport
Forestry Nursery
Kurupelit İncesu
Kocadağ Excursion Area
Hasköy
Meşe Cultural Park
Çakırlar Small Wood
Doğu Park

2.9.7.Beaches and Camping Places

Highway Premises
DSİ Premises
Ministry of Public Works and Settlement Premises
Rural Services Directorate of 12th Area Premises
Directorate of Physical Education Premises
Regional Directorate of Meteorology Premises
Kızılay Holiday Camp