The Vakıf Han stands north-west of the bedesten in Trabzon: a courtyard han of three storeys, built together with the mosque on its south-east side. According to the inscription over that mosque's ablution fountain, a benefactor named Hacı Yahya had them built in 1781.
The main entrance to the ground floor is on the east, where an arcade and the rooms behind it enclose an open courtyard. The first floor is entered from the south and has four shops on its front, along with the ablution fountain and the door of the mosque; the rooms around the courtyard are of different sizes, with an iwan in the middle of the north side. The second floor has the arcaded courtyard rooms and the mosque. The mosque's minaret, at its south-east corner, has fallen. The han is on Bedesten Caddesi in the Ortahisar quarter.
Getting there
- Access
- The han is reached by Trabzon's city transport.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Trabzon as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 7.3 °C in February to 23.5 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June, July, August, September and October; rainfall is heaviest in October (113 mm) and lightest in July (37 mm). Long-term means for 1927-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
