Reported to have lived circa 1450-1540, Molla Hamit Cana Hoca was born in the village of Goglieti in Murgul (today within the boundaries of Başköy), the son of a Georgian priest father and a Laz mother. Taken to Istanbul by Ottoman soldiers around the age of nine or ten, he studied at the Enderûn School, becoming first a hafiz and then a molla, and was nicknamed 'Cana' for his closeness to his teachers. After teaching for a time at the Enderûn, he obtained permission from the Şeyhülislâm of the period and returned home to spread Islam in the Murgul region, converting first his own father and then the villagers. He is said to have built the first mosque in Artvin at Lomiketi in 1520 and to have carried out missionary work across Atina (Pazar), Viçe (Fındıklı), Arhavi, Maradit (Muratlı/Borçka), the İmerhev valley, and the Batumi-Kutaisi line. His tomb, restored and reopened together with a mosque in 2016, is venerated as a local site of pious visitation.