Yusufiye Medresesi stands at the Girik Düzü locality in central Bitlis, in the quarter that holds the tomb tower and cemetery known as Cennet Çukuru. The directorate believes it was built in the eighteenth or nineteenth century.
For a time the building served as a closed prison.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Bitlis as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from -4.2 °C in January to 23.1 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in June, July, August and September; rainfall is heaviest in March (196 mm) and lightest in August (7 mm). Long-term means for 2011-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
