Guide
The Dabakhane Mosque stands in the hans district of Şanlıurfa, near the Kelleci stream. The inscription on its west door records that it was built in 1568, in the reign of Selim II. Who had it built is not certain, though Behram Pasha is the name generally proposed, and the reasoning is set out on the Ministry's page: the grave in the courtyard carries a four-line inscription of which the first three lines are destroyed, the name Behram Pasha can be read in the first, and the fourth gives the year 1562 — which, taken with the dating of the Gümrük Han to the same period, makes his patronage likely.
The mosque is covered by three domes set parallel to the mihrab. Above the entrance is a mukebbire, the raised platform from which the imam's voice was carried out to the courtyard, and in this it is the only example among the mosques of Urfa. The minaret at the northwest is decoratively divided into seven tiers. The building has been repaired repeatedly: by Muhammed Bihsevi Ağa in 1759, by Ramazan Ağa son of Abdullah in the reign of Ahmed I between 1603 and 1617, by someone whose name cannot be made out in 1887, and, according to an undated inscription, by Seyyid Muhammed son of Hüseyin Namdar. The mosque is in the Bamyasuyu quarter.
