When you first contact in Erzurum, cannot fail to notice the many small mosques that can be found literally at every step. This is because the city is built in a seismically dangerous region of the Peninsula of Asia Minor. By the end of the twentieth century development of Erzurum consisted mostly of one - and two-story buildings of stone. If it is not possible to build one big mosque, the local population built a lot of small.

The mosque of Ibrahim Pasha, also known as the Average mosque, located at the intersection of Osmanpasa and the prospectus Ali Ravi. Interesting is the fact that within a radius of one hundred meters from Ibrahim Pasha there are six mosques.

The mosque looks like built from the same stone as the fortress of Erzurum. The black color gives the extraordinary beauty of the buildings of this region. Basalt is a strong rock of volcanic origin, which is easily treatable. Widely distributed in the earth's crust, he became one of the basic building materials in the area. Due to the durability (the breed is not destroyed from time to time) built of basalt many tens of centuries ago, came in very good condition to the present day.

The mosque was built, as the inscription of four lines above the entrance, in 1748 by order of Haji Ibrahim Dr. Ethem Pasha as a library and darulhadis (school of Tradition). On the southern part of the courtyard of the ensemble are the graves of Damac Ibrahim Pasha and his sons. Located in the same part of the room with the terrace was intended for students of the madrasah. It is known that when this small ensemble acted as a madrasa, there were a lot of people.

In 1865 there was a source and a drinking fountain that had been damaged during road construction works. In the years when elementary school ensemble was transformed into a mosque, it is a minaret was added with one of the seref. Among the trees in the centre of the courtyard of the mosque is sadirvan. Floral motifs on the walls of the premises coincide with the architectural traditions of the epoch of Tulips and increase their artistic value.

Single-domed mosque square shape has three domes, connected by arches. Outside the dome hides a conical roof. The mihrab of the mosque made of marble. The minaret is made of great stones, which cut one balcony.