The mosque takes its name from its domes, which are covered with lead. It was built in 1738-39 at Harput, and the provincial directorate counts it among the finest examples of the Ottoman-period mosques there.
It is rectangular in plan; the square prayer hall is covered by a dome with four windows in its drum, the porch for latecomers has three domes, and the minaret is of cut stone.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Elazığ as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from -0.7 °C in January to 27.2 °C in July; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June and September; rainfall is heaviest in April (63 mm) and lightest in August (2 mm). Long-term means for 1938-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
