The mosque is known locally as the Red Minaret Mosque, after its brick minaret. It was built in 1659 by Ahmet Şemsi Paşa.
It has a single dome and a single minaret, with a square porch for latecomers. It is on Adnan Menderes Bulvarı in the Güzelhisar quarter and is reached by city transport.
Getting there
- Access
- On Adnan Menderes Bulvarı; city transport reaches it.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Aydın as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 8.2 °C in January to 28.4 °C in July; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in April, May, September and October; rainfall is heaviest in December (126 mm) and lightest in August (6 mm). Long-term means for 1940-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
