Zabit Demir, the founder of our company, gave Ankara Ahlatlıbel a complex to keep alive the name of his father, Hacı İbrahim Demir. The building opened for worship with a ceremony on 17 March 2026.
A complex, not simply a mosque
With a 3,100 square metre interior accommodating 5,000 people at once, the building brings together traces of Seljuk and Ottoman architecture in a modern reading. The complex contains a Qur’an school, a library and reading room, a foundation building, a condolence hall and a car park; educational and cultural activities are held there and meals are served to visitors.
We did not stop at building it: Deha Altyapı still meets all its running costs — from the library to the kitchen, from the educational activities to the maintenance. What keeps a building standing is not the day it opens, but who unlocks the door the next morning.
Details
- Location: Ahlatlıbel, Çankaya / Ankara
- Capacity: 5,000 people
- Interior area: 3,100 m²
- Opening: 17 March 2026
- Facilities: Mosque · Qur’an school · Library and reading room · Foundation building · Condolence hall · Car park
- Architecture: a synthesis of Seljuk, Ottoman and modern
- Commissioned by: Deha Altyapı A.Ş.
Opening — 17 March 2026
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan attended the opening ceremony. The complex opened its doors to the congregation with the first tarawih prayer of Ramadan.
For thirty years we have built roads, tunnels and bridges — all of them to reach somewhere. This complex is the somewhere itself.