The Çivitcioğlu Medrese stands on the east front of the Great Mosque in central Çankırı and has come down from the seventeenth century. It sits within a courtyard: two storeys of single-file cells ranged east to west, with a row of wooden arcades in front of the cells on both floors.
The building is in use today as a culture and art centre where traditional Turkish decorative arts are produced and displayed, so there is something to see inside as well as the architecture. It is on Çivitcioğlu Sokak in the Mimar Sinan quarter, beside the Great Mosque.
Getting there
- Access
- On Çivitçioğlu Sokak in the Mimar Sinan neighbourhood of central Çankırı, beside the Sultan Süleyman or Büyük mosque.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Çankırı as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from -0.4 °C in January to 23.1 °C in July; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June, July, August and September; rainfall is heaviest in May (57 mm) and lightest in August (18 mm). Long-term means for 1929-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
