The mosque at Işıklı village was built in 1887, rectangular in plan and of cut stone. What is worth going in for is the woodwork and its decoration: the ceiling has a dome at its centre with a star motif, painted in the kalem isi manner.
The porch for latecomers on the north front and the roof have been repaired. Işıklı is in the Ardeşen district of Rize.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Rize as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 6.8 °C in February to 23.3 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June, July, August, September and October; rainfall is heaviest in October (294 mm) and lightest in May (97 mm). Long-term means for 1927-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
