Architect. He was born in 1945 in Şarkışla district of Sivas. He
completed his primary and secondary education in Sivas, his higher education in
Istanbul Yıldız Technical University’s Faculty of Architecture (1969). He
worked for a short period in the Ministry of Public Works. Upon completing his
military service, he started to work as a freelance architect. He worked until 1980
as a designer, consultant, and building inspector. Meanwhile he realized some
works and applications concerning religious architecture buildings. Sivas Pasha
Mosque and Adana Sabancı Central Mosque and Social Complex can be regarded
among these works.
Necip Dinç made the project planning and
construction coordinating of the social buildings of Sivas Toptancılar Çarşısı
(Sivas Wholesalers Bazaar) with a team between 198 and 1984. Between 1984 and
85 he prepared projects and conducted
applications of Abdüsselam el-Esmeri Mosque, tomb and social complex in the
Ziliten city of Libya whose structure was undertaken by Özdemir Construction
Company. Meanwhile he took over the construction of Abdünnur Mosque from
another company and finalized it. All these projects are works pertaining to
Classical Arabic Architecture style.
Upon returning to Turkey, Dinç undertook the consultancy of a
wedding hall being built by the Municipality of Sivas. In the same time he
prepared the projects of Sivas Cumhuriyet University Mosque and Sivas
Toptancılar Çarşısı Mosque in a post-modern style. In 1988 he prepared all architectural
projects and details of Sabancı Central Mosque and Social Complex built by the
leadership of Turkish Religious Foundation’s Adana Branch. He conducted its
consultancy services until its opening date in December 1998.
Necip Dinç meanwhile realized projects of Malatya İnönü University
Mosque and its extensions. Upon the will of the clients this project rather
resembles to classical architectural style like Adana Sabancı Central Mosque.
This project he realized benefiting from the styles and possibilities of modern
architecture is one of the most important works in his career. One of the last
works of Dinç is a small social complex design belonging to a mosque and its
extensions he built in Kosturma city of Russia. This project is a synthesis
work in which the local architectural style is in the foreground.
Adana Sabancı
Central Mosque and Social Complex built by Necip Dinç who is deemed as today’s Sinan
is the fourth biggest mosque of Middle East. Its dome with a diameter of 32 meters
is the biggest in Turkey. The mosque which has a surface of 6600 square meters
is large enough to host 28.000 people. The Architect Necip Dinç here remained
loyal to the essence of Ottoman Architecture by using Ottomans’ cultural
accumulation, world view, finesse and composition. These works to which he
reflected his beliefs, traditions, customs and manners in his inner world are
regarded by some as a match of Selimiye Mosque, sibling of Sultanahmet Mosque,
contemporary of Kocatepe Mosque.
The
mosque is based on nine columns and was built due to classical Ottoman
architecture. The architect expressed all zones used in this mosque with a
symbol. For example 4 half-domes symbolize 4
books, 4 caliphs and 4 sects. 5 domes 5 conditions of Islam, 6 minarets 6
conditions of faith, the main dome which has a diameter of 32 meters 32
religious duties, 28 domes in the yard 28 prophets who are mentioned in the
Koran, 40 windows in the main dome the age when Muhammad became a prophet and
40 parts of daily prayers, the 4 minarets which are 99 meters long indicate 99
names of Allah…
One of the last
works of Dinç is Malatya İnönü University Mosque and Cultural Center whose
foundation was laid on the 25th of February 1993 and which was
partially opened to worship seventeen years later. Its construction consists of
two parts: the main place and the yard with fountain. This complex is separated
with the dilatation method (the space left within certain parts of long
structures in order to prevent cracks due to horizontal or vertical loads.)
which provides easiness in many aspects. The yard with fountain was designed
two-fold benefiting from the elevation difference in
the direction of North-South. The ground floor is an area of 2500 square meters
and it will serve as a Cultural Center. The other floor contains conference
halls, library and reading halls. The project with its poetry-like esthetics
rising to the sky and the mosque’s garden with its wide and usable areas
contribute to Malatya’s attraction at the highest level....
The spirit of
Selimiye Mosque which is the synthesis and summary of Sinan’s whole works he
realized with a patient quest was taken as basis. Within this extent it was
attempted to catch the perfection in the plan, place and façade in terms of
harmony.
