The fountain is one of the monuments built in 1901 in a great many Ottoman provinces to mark the twenty-fifth year of Abdülhamid II on the throne. It was named after Bahri Paşa, then governor of Adana.
Standing in Kuruköprü square, it was pulled down by the municipality in 1952 when the road was widened.
In 1991 and 1992, under the governorate's campaign called Respect for Our Cultural Property, a restitution project was drawn up by the architect Zeynep Çavuşoğlu and the fountain was rebuilt by the governorate.
It now stands in Atatürk Park, right in the centre of the city, and is easily reached by any means of transport.
Getting there
- Access
- The fountain stands in Atatürk Park, in the very centre of the city, and any kind of transport reaches it.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Adana as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 9.6 °C in January to 28.8 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in April, May, October and November; rainfall is heaviest in December (125 mm) and lightest in August (9 mm). Long-term means for 1929-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
