The Şehidiye madrasa at Mardin is thought to have been built at the beginning of the 13th century by the Artuqid sultan Melik Nasreddin Artuk Aslan. The plan is the familiar one — a porticoed courtyard with iwans, and a two-aisled masjid on the south side — but so many alterations, repairs and additions have been made that little of the original survives.
Its minaret had fallen and was rebuilt in 1916–17.
Getting there
- Access
- On 1. Cadde, opposite the old post office building.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Mardin as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 3.1 °C in January to 29.9 °C in July; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May and October; rainfall is heaviest in January (114 mm) and lightest in August (2 mm). Long-term means for 1940-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
