Uzun Çarşı is among the oldest and most established of the markets Adapazarı kept from the Ottoman period, and it still works as the city's main commercial centre.
The provincial directorate records who ran it. Armenians and Greeks were the market's first founders; most of the older tradespeople there afterwards were immigrants from Bulgaria, Bosnia, Albania and Romania.
Şemsiyeli Park and three mosques — the historic Orhan, the Ağa and the Orta — stand around it. The approach is on asphalt road and it can be visited in any season.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Sakarya as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 6.3 °C in January to 23.6 °C in July; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June, July, August, September and October; rainfall is heaviest in December (106 mm) and lightest in August (48 mm). Long-term means for 1951-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
