The date the Şeyh Çabuk mosque at Mardin was built is not known, though it most likely took its present form in the fifteenth century. It was repaired twice in the nineteenth. Its garden walls, which amount to a courtyard, spread it over a wide area.
In plan it runs across rather than lengthwise, in the manner of Mardin's mosques and prayer houses generally: the main space is a nave under two long barrel vaults set crosswise. The space on the south side, covered by a cross vault, was probably a tomb or a place for the ceremony of remembrance. The mosque is on 1. Cadde in the centre of Mardin.
Getting there
- Access
- On 1. Cadde.
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).
