The mosque and the tomb here adjoin one another, and spolia — stone reused from older buildings — was worked into the fabric. The mosque is rectangular; the tomb is rectangular too, and domed.
The mosque's entrance is monumental, and the door into the tomb opens immediately to the west of it. The porch where latecomers pray stands on two reused columns and timber ones, and the minaret is short, built in brick, with a short cap. The complex is at Ulugbey, in the Senirkent district of Isparta.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Isparta as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 1.9 °C in January to 23.5 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June, July, August and September; rainfall is heaviest in December (86 mm) and lightest in August (14 mm). Long-term means for 1929-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
