The Alaeddin Bey Mosque in Muş, also called the Paşa Mosque, was built in the eighteenth century by Alaeddin Bey, son of Kasım Ağa and governor of the city at the time; inscriptions in various parts of the building record the work.
Andesite tuff was used in the walls, the transitional elements and the dome, and the facades are enlivened with stone of two colours. The minaret is two-coloured cut stone, rising as a cylinder from a square base, and around the middle of the shaft runs a band of plant motifs resembling interlaced plane trees.
Inside, the square plan is divided into nine bays by four cruciform piers at the centre and the pointed arches springing from pilasters projecting from the walls opposite them, and a large central dome is surrounded by smaller ones. The prayer hall is entered through a portal in the narthex, which is roofed by three shallow domes. Look at the outer faces of those piers: on both sides they are decorated from floor level up to the springing of the arches with incised flowers in the form of six-armed daisies. The mihrab, in the middle bay, is framed by a rectangular wall pier and carries colonnettes and carved plant forms, and reliefs of oil lamps run down either side of the crown door.
Getting there
- Access
- In the Kale neighbourhood of central Muş.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Muş as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from -6.8 °C in January to 25.1 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in June and September; rainfall is heaviest in March (109 mm) and lightest in August (6 mm). Long-term means for 1964-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
