Göynük

Göynük lies in a valley among the wooded hills of northwestern Anatolia. Its early Ottoman mosque was founded by Gazi Süleyman Pasha between 1331 and 1335, making it a landmark of the principality's expansion into the region. Nearby is the tomb of Akşemseddin, the fifteenth-century scholar and spiritual teacher associated with Mehmed II. Religious buildings and houses gathered along the valley give the town a character shaped by the mountains around it.