İnikli Village

According to the temettuat registers of the village of İnikli, affiliated to İznik, recorded in 1865, it is understood that both the Greeks and the Turkish population lived together here. However, it has been determined that the old Greek stone houses given to the immigrants who came here as a result of the population exchange carried out in 1924 were used by the Turks until the 1940s, and that after this date, these houses were demolished and new houses were built in their place because they were not suitable for the traditional Turkish lifestyle. Although these houses were built in a recent period, they contain all the traces of traditional Turkish architecture from the Ottoman period in terms of both material, technical and spatial features. However, the main feature that distinguishes these structures from examples of Ottoman-era civil architecture is that there is a balcony on the upper axis of the main entrance door opening to the street. The composition of these structures, which were formed because the climate conditions of the region allowed the use of wooden materials and the craftsmen working in the region were familiar with all the construction techniques of traditional residential architecture, shows a local Ottoman village. These buildings, which should be described as examples of civil architecture, display the functional features of traditional Turkish lifestyle and residential architecture with service areas such as kitchens, pantries, etc. on the ground floor, sofas generally shaped like external sofas on the upper floors, and rooms opening onto these sofas.