Wooden Roofed & Columned Mosques in Anatolia For at least 10,000 years, wood has been used in Anatolian architecture. When the Seljuks moved into Anatolia in the late 11th century, they began building mosques with wooden columns and roofs similar to those of Samarkand, Bukhara, and Khiva. Some wooden column headings and wooden roofed mosques from the 10th and 11th centuries are on display in the museums of Samarkand and Tashkent. In Anatolian-Turkish architecture, wooden roofed and columned mosques dating from the 13th century are a distinct building type. The architectural design of these structures reflects Middle Asia's tabular tent designs as well as Turkistan's 11th-12th century wooden columned mosques features. Wooden roofed and columned mosques can be found in Konya, Ankara, and Kastamonu from the Anatolian Seljuk era and Beyliks period. Wooden-roofed and -columned mosques were built until roughly the start of the 20th century in isolated areas away from the Ottoman capital. Below are the best examples of these amazing mosques: