The building is in use as a shop today, so what it was built for is no longer what happens inside it: a muvakkithane was where the hour and the exact times of prayer were determined and announced.
It was built in 1831-32 by Halil Kamil Ağa, the mütesellim of Kütahya, who held the rank of chief gatekeeper. It is long and rectangular in plan, of cut stone, under a wide-eaved roof covered in tiles. It is in the Balıklı quarter, in the city centre.
Getting there
- Access
- In the city centre.
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).
