Soğuk Su Mosque is in the Nizamiye quarter of central Giresun and has been a registered cultural property since a decision of 14 February 1986. The exact year it was built is not known. Its inscription says it was raised in the second half of the nineteenth century by a benefactor named Muslim Bey, and that the building was rebuilt in 1895 by the district governor Mahmut Rüştü Bey. The inscription sits above a door that is kept closed, so the most informative thing about the mosque is also the hardest to see.
The mosque is cut stone on a rectangular plan, under a hipped roof of Marseille tiles with narrow eaves. The lower windows are rectangular and the upper ones round-arched. The single-balcony concrete minaret at the northeast is clearly a later addition, entered from outside and of no architectural interest. The gallery, which rested on wooden columns, was pulled down in 1979 and a concrete floor put in instead. The cut-stone mihrab is original to the building; the minbar is new and plain. The mosque is in the centre of town and easy to reach on foot or by car.
Getting there
- Access
- In the city centre, easy to reach on foot or by car.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Giresun as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 7.2 °C in February to 23.4 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June, July, August, September and October; rainfall is heaviest in October (163 mm) and lightest in May (69 mm). Long-term means for 1929-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
