There is no precise information on when Demirci, the second farthest district from Manisa city center, was established. There is the ancient city of Saittai/Sidas in the village of İcikler, approximately 40 km. away from the district. It is possible to see the remains of the ancient city on the walls and courtyards of some houses in the district center and villages. In the district center and villages, there are also buildings from the Turkish-Islamic period. The subject of our study consists of three village mosques in Demirci, two of which are not in use today and one of which is open for praying. The mosques have been evaluated in terms of plan, material use, and ornamentation. 

There is a plaque on the eastern façade of the Marmaracık Village Mosque, which is open to worship today, stating that it was built in 1227 (Hijri)/ 1811-1812 (Gregorian) and repaired in 1950. Archive records contain information about the orator working in the mosque. In the documents about the Köylüce Village Old Mosque, which was built by the village people and is not in use today, it is mentioned that a orator worked in the mosque in 1819. There is an inscription dated 1292 (Hijri) / 1874-1875 (Gregorian) on the west façade of the building. This date in the inscription probably refers to the repair date of the building. Likewise, there is information about the Old Mosque of Kızılca Village, which is not in use today, that an imam was in charge in the village in the 16th century. However, there are three inscriptions on the building, and two of the inscriptions have the dates 1216 (Hijri) / 1898-1899 (Gregorian). In another inscription, the date 1265 (Hijri) / 1848-1849 (Gregorian) is written. The dates on the inscriptions are likely to be repair dates. Of the three mosques that constitute the subject of our study, the name of the master is mentioned only in the Marmaracık Village Mosque. In the center of the wreath-shaped ornament on the northern body wall of the harim, there is a statement which says that it was repaired by a master named Ahmet Azak from Bigadiç in 1950. All of the buildings have rectangular plans and are covered with wooden ceilings and hipped roofs.

During the Westernization period, wall paintings emerged as a new genre. Examples of wall paintings are commonly seen in Western Anatolia. They are found in both religious and civil buildings constructed in the provinces of Denizli, Aydın, Muğla, Manisa, Afyon, and Uşak. Wall paintings are applied on plaster and wood materials. Wall paintings, which are considered as a new genre, have a wide range of subjects. Landscape paintings are among the most frequently seen wall paintings. Architectural space drawings come after landscape paintings. In architectural space depictions, the most common theme is the mosque. The majority of the mosques with domes and minarets are examples from the capital. Another common motif in mosques and residences is the depiction of flowers in vases. Flower motifs with leaves are depicted in different vases. Tree depictions are also a preferred subject in pencil decorations and the most common ones are cypress trees, date palms, orange, and lemon trees. The curtain motif, which expresses the other world and the world we live in, is used on mihrabs and in frames. The curtain motif is accompanied by the oil lamp motif. Behind the curtain decorations separated on both sides, the perception of an imaginary space is tried to be evoked. In religious and civil buildings, it is possible to see the clock motif, which entered the art of decoration with the influence of the Westernization period. Table clocks, pendulum clocks, and pocket watches are included in the ornamentation program of civil architecture, mosques, and tombs in different forms. The time expression specified in clock decorations refers to the time when the decoration was completed. There are also clock decorations on tombstones. The time expression given on the tombstones indicates the time of the person’s death. Writing ornaments are also a very common type of hand drawings. Generally, the inscriptions are addressed in “S”-”C” curved baroque medallions or in the form of rectangular plates. There are examples of some writing decorations made in mutual stacking (musenna). 

In the Marmaracık Village Mosque within the scope of our study, text ornaments in baroque medallions, leaf and zigzag motifs on the window pediments of the harim, stacked text on the eastern façade and mosque ornamentation (musenna) were addressed together. Here, the mosque has a dome and four minarets with two balconies on each. “Noah’s Ark and Ashab-ı Keyf” is written in stacked script just below the women’s mahfil. To the east of the mihrab, a square clock ornament attracts attention. The clock, depicted with a dome and two minarets, shows 11.45. The specified time is likely to indicate the time when the ornamentation was completed. Kızılca Village Old Mosque has pencil ornaments on plaster on the harim body walls and mihrab. The mihrab arch is divided vertically into four sections. In each section, there are shapes in the form of a beyzi form and eight-armed star ornaments in the center. In the mihrab niche, there is a curved curtain motif with tasseled ends and an oil lamp motif hanging from the center. A zencirek motif borders the mihrab from two directions. The corners and the crown of the mihrab are decorated with floral ornaments. Baroque medallions and writing ornaments in rectangular plates are also seen. On the eastern axis of the southern body wall, the curtain motif gathered on the sides in the frame and the stacked writing style ornamentation in the middle stand out. All of the wall paintings of the Old Mosque of Kızılca Village were addressed in the form of a painting. Medallions and plates are reflected as if they were hung on the wall with the help of nails. There are vases and flowers coming out of them in the mahfil section in the north. Compared to the other two mosques, the hand drawings are simpler in Köylüce Village Old Mosque. There are writing decorations in medallions on the south and east facade. On the southern and eastern facades, red flowers with green leaves accompany the writing decorations at the level of the upper cover. 

There is no information about the identity of the artists who made the decorations on the buildings. When the hand drawings are evaluated in terms of subject and technique, it is seen that the motifs are repetitive. Especially in Marmaracık Village Mosque and Kızılca Village Old Mosque, the Surah of Conquest and the stacked text ornament are similar applications. Within this context, it is thought that the artist who made the ornaments is the same person. The number of mosques around Manisa, Denizli, and Afyon where similar ornamentation programs were carried out by local artists is pretty high. The Old Mosques of Köylüce and Kızılca Villages are in danger of extinction today. After the construction of new mosques in the villages, the disappearance of many old village mosques is inevitable.