The mosque was built between 1516 and 1520 by Bıyıklı Mehmet Paşa, the city's first Ottoman governor, and the provincial directorate describes it as the first Ottoman building put up in Diyarbakır. It is also called the Kurşunlu mosque.
Its walls are faced with Ottoman tiles, and the mihrab and minbar are imposing pieces of work whose details are in the Seljuk manner. The mosque was repaired in the republican period, and there is a tomb beside it. It is on Fatih Sokak in the Fatihpasa quarter of Sur.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Diyarbakır as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 1.8 °C in January to 31 °C in July; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May and October; rainfall is heaviest in December (70 mm) and lightest in August (1 mm). Long-term means for 1929-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
