Two things in the Melik Ahmet Paşa mosque at Diyarbakır are worth going in for. The mihrab is made entirely of tile. And the minaret is climbed by two stairs that do not see one another for the first half of the ascent, meeting only halfway up.
The mosque was built in the sixteenth century by Melik Ahmet Paşa. The decoration of the minaret's base is finely done, and the reliefs ornamented with tile mosaic give the work the look of a delicate and skilled hand. It is on Melik Ahmet Caddesi in the Sur district.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Diyarbakır as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 1.8 °C in January to 31 °C in July; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May and October; rainfall is heaviest in December (70 mm) and lightest in August (1 mm). Long-term means for 1929-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
