The mosque at Gevaş has no building inscription, and it is generally dated to the fourteenth or fifteenth century; it is accepted as having been built by İzzettin Sir, the ruler of Van and Hakkari. The minaret in the middle of the west front is a modern addition.
The building is a square mosque with a medrese adjoining its north wall. A portal on the north part of the west front leads into the medrese courtyard, and a second door from there into the mosque. The mosque has two aisles and a dome in front of the mihrab; the aisles on the north are covered with barrel vaults set crosswise, and the sections on either side of the dome were treated as spaces under lengthwise barrel vaults. A five-sided mihrab niche stands in the middle of the qibla wall. The building is of regular cut stone, in the Hiset quarter of Gevaş.
Getting there
- Access
- The mosque is in the Hişet quarter of Gevaş.
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).
