The mosque at Mollakendi, on the Diyarbakır road, is made up of a front, an entrance hall and the prayer hall. Inside, a wooden upper gallery stands on the north, and on the south are the mihrab and a minbar of wood and stone. The minaret adjoins the west wall on the outside.
West of the mosque are the tomb of Ahmed-i Peykeri and a turbaned gravestone carrying the name Hüseyin Paşa in Arabic, dated 1277 in the Hijri calendar. The building is registered as a monumental cultural asset.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Elazığ as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from -0.7 °C in January to 27.2 °C in July; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June and September; rainfall is heaviest in April (63 mm) and lightest in August (2 mm). Long-term means for 1938-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
