These two tomb towers stand in an old cemetery about three kilometres south of Yenikaya, the former Kubik, in the Çaldıran district of Van. Their inscriptions are lost, and they are thought to have been built in the middle of the seventeenth century.
The two are single-storey and built close to one another, the northern with an octagonal body and the southern with nine sides. Their outer facing has been stripped away entirely. An article published in 1976 in the Sanat Tarihi Yilligi, on little-known buildings of the Van region, records that there were ram-shaped gravestones around the tomb towers.
Getting there
- Access
- The tombs lie about 3 km south of the Yenikaya (Kübik) quarter in Çaldıran.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Van as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from -3 °C in January to 22.4 °C in July; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in June, July, August and September; rainfall is heaviest in April (55 mm) and lightest in August (6 mm). Long-term means for 1939-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
