The mosque takes its name from the stonework of its minaret: black and white stone, laid in courses up to the balcony and in a chequer pattern above it. The minaret is built over the door.
The mosque was built in 1203-1204 in the Artuqid period, small and rectangular in plan. It went through a major repair in the nineteenth century, and the worked wooden ceiling belongs to that time. It is in the Harput quarter.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Elazığ as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from -0.7 °C in January to 27.2 °C in July; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June and September; rainfall is heaviest in April (63 mm) and lightest in August (2 mm). Long-term means for 1938-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
