Cumalıkızık

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Cumalıkızık Village is located in 10 kilometers west of the Bursa , at the foot of the Mt. Uludağ . its history goes back to the Ottoman Empire's foundation period . The village is within the border of the Yıldırım county .

Cumalıkızık was founded by a waqf village. The historical textures have been well protected and the civilian countryside architectural structures of the early Ottoman period have been successful at remaining undamaged until today . Because of this characteristic , the Cumalıkızık has been the center of the population that is the most attractive to the people and a frequently visited place.

There are also a lot of movies that have often been recorded in the village about historical themes . The villages are placed close together between the foot of Mt.Uludağ and the valleys have been called kızık - In Turkish ; The name stands for one of the twenty-four clan of the Oghuz Turks . and the people from other villages also called kızık such like Değirmenlikızık, Derekızık , Hamamlıkızık called the village Cumalıkızık , because they had been gathering for ritual of worship on Fridays in this village . In Turkish Friday means cuma .In the village's square , there is a museum called Cumalıkızık ethnography museum where the historical objects belongs to the village has been exhibited . In the village , raspberry festival is held on Junes . and The famous Cumalıkızık houses has been made out of wood , adobes , rubblestones . most of them are triplex houses . and the windows upstairs are generally latticed and with a bay window . The handles and knockers on the main entry doors are made out of wrought iron . and also there are very narrow streets having cobblestone and without having sidewalk . The mosque , the fountain of 'zekiye hatun' next to the mosque and the bath with one dome is an inheritance to the village from the Ottoman Empire . and also there is a ruin of a church built by Byzantines .

In Cumalıkızık, there are totally 270 historical houses in the village. Some of these houses are in process of restoration and maintenance. 180 of them are still being used as dwellings.

In 1969, the remains of a Byzantine church were unearthed in the southeast of the village at the foothills of Mt. Uludağ. Some architectural works are on display in the Archeological Museum of Bursa.