The Ulu Cami of Muş, a rubble-stone mosque of the later fourteenth century, was built by Şeyh Muhammed-i Mağribi, who lies buried in its courtyard. It stands west of the Alaeddin Bey and Hacı Şeref mosques.
The mosque is of rubble stone, rectangular in plan, and carries no inscription; from its architecture it is dated to the second half of the fourteenth century.
The main space is covered by a dome at the centre and barrel vaults at the sides, and on the north is a porch of three domes built in cut stone. The plain portal, also of cut stone, sits within a pointed-arched niche. Every wall but the west one has two windows.
The minaret was damaged in an earthquake and repaired, faithfully to its original form, in 1968 and 1972.
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- Across Muş as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from -6.8 °C in January to 25.1 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in June and September; rainfall is heaviest in March (109 mm) and lightest in August (6 mm). Long-term means for 1964-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
