The tomb standing here was built in 1995, in the manner of Ottoman architecture. It belongs to Kara Ahmed Bey, grandfather of Evliya Çelebi — the traveller, scholar, writer and folklorist from Kütahya.
Evliya Çelebi himself recorded where it was: describing his home town on his visit of 1678, he wrote that his grandfather's grave lay next to their house in the Zeryen quarter. Take the number 10 bus from the city centre.
Getting there
- Access
- Bus number 10 from the city centre reaches it.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Kütahya as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 0.5 °C in January to 20.9 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in June, July, August and September; rainfall is heaviest in December (76 mm) and lightest in August (18 mm). Long-term means for 1929-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
