With its six minarets, Şahinbey Millet Camii is the mosque and külliye on Akkent square in the Akkent neighbourhood of Gaziantep's Şahinbey district, described as the second-largest mosque in Türkiye. It stands on 19,558 m² and holds 34,000 worshippers inside and out.
The main dome is 76 m high on the inside and is ringed by 125 smaller domes. Four of the minarets are 107.1 m tall and the other two 91 m. The mosque opened on 4 February 2024, with Erdoğan, the president of Türkiye, in attendance.
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- Climate
- Across Gaziantep as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 3.2 °C in January to 28.1 °C in July; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June, September and October; rainfall is heaviest in January (103 mm) and lightest in August (5 mm). Long-term means for 1940-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
