The Little Church inside the castle at Amasra has been restored and is in use as a culture and arts house; before that it served for a period as a mosque.
It is rectangular in plan, its walls built of rubble stone, brick and reused material. The narthex is four-sided and in three bays, covered with cross vaults, and traces of frescoes remain on the walls. The apse is semicircular both inside and out.
Getting there
- Access
- Within the bounds of Amasra Castle.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Bartın as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 4.2 °C in January to 22.1 °C in July; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June, July, August and September; rainfall is heaviest in December (133 mm) and lightest in May (54 mm). Long-term means for 1961-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
