The Yıldızlı Han serves as a restaurant today, after a restoration carried out between 2015 and 2019. It had been destroyed completely in the Russian occupation of 1916.
It was built in 1307 by Miralay Seyfi Bey, in the centre of Muş, on the historic Silk Road along the Erzurum-Muş-Bitlis line. It covers 613 square metres in two storeys: the lower floor of cut stone, the upper of mudbrick in keeping with Seljuk building practice, with 52 shops on the two floors together. It is on Demirciler Sokak in the Minare quarter.
Getting there
- Access
- On Demirciler Sokak in central Muş.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Muş as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from -6.8 °C in January to 25.1 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in June and September; rainfall is heaviest in March (109 mm) and lightest in August (6 mm). Long-term means for 1964-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
