The minbar of the mosque at Posof carries an inscription dated 1868, and that is the date usually given for it.
In the rectangular burial ground east of the mosque stands a sarcophagus inscribed 1771, which the directorate says suggests the mosque's history reaches further back than the minbar date.
The plan is a rectangle longer than it is wide, built of cut stone, and the interior follows Ottoman architecture.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Ardahan as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from -11.2 °C in January to 16.1 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in July and August; rainfall is heaviest in June (92 mm) and lightest in January (20 mm). Long-term means for 1958-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
