Antalya Mosque

Yivli Minare Camii stands in Kaleiçi, Antalya's walled old town, on Cumhuriyet Caddesi beside Kalekapısı Square. It is a working Sunni mosque rather than a museum, and the fluted brick minaret beside it is the most reproduced image of the city. Türkiye placed the building on its UNESCO Tentative List on 13 April 2016 under criteria (ii) and (iv), reference 6119, and the submission published there is the fullest description of it available in English. Monday–Thursday 10:00–17:30; Friday 10:00–17:00; Saturday–Sunday 10:00–17:30. Open seven days a week, with no weekly closure day. Tourist visits take place outside worship times under staff supervision; avoid disrupting prayers.

The prayer hall is rectangular and covered by six domes in two rows, which makes it the oldest durable example of a multi-domed mosque in Anatolia. Twelve columns carry the roof and their capitals are ancient, reused pieces set in place by the rebuilders rather than carved new for the job. Look up at the springing of the domes and then down at the capitals: nothing about the reuse is disguised, and it is the most interesting thing in the room. Open seven days a week, with no weekly closure day. Tourist visits take place outside worship times under staff supervision; avoid disrupting prayers.

Allow thirty minutes. No operator publishes a suggested visit length for Yivli Minare Camii, so thirty minutes is this guide's judgement rather than a figure read off a sign, and it is built from what the building actually holds. There is one rectangular prayer hall under six domes, a transparent floor panel over the excavated water channels, the enclosure outside, and the minaret, which is looked at from below. Free general admission; the active mosque has no visitor ticket or admission charge.

The mosque runs to the prayer calendar and not to a museum timetable, so that is the schedule to plan against. The Presidency of Religious Affairs publishes Antalya's times daily; on 26 August 2026 they fell at 04:51, sunrise at 06:16, then 13:04, 16:45, 19:42 and 21:02. Mid-morning and mid-afternoon are the calm windows. Monday–Thursday 10:00–17:30; Friday 10:00–17:00; Saturday–Sunday 10:00–17:30. The mosque is at Selçuk Mahallesi, İskele Caddesi No. 1 in Kaleiçi. Kale Kapısı and İsmetpaşa are the named tram stops serving this part of the historic centre; continue on foot into Selçuk Mahallesi toward İskele Caddesi.

No admission charge could be established from an operator source, and this guide will not print a number it cannot stand behind. What is documented is where the building does not appear. A building absent from that list carries no ministry ticket and is not covered by the Müzekart. Free general admission; the active mosque has no visitor ticket or admission charge. The public-body visitor listing identifies barrier-free access at the mosque. The minaret itself is accessible only by a 90-step staircase. Guide service is listed as available. Yes. Antalya İl Müftülüğü documented congregational worship and visitor-guidance activity at the mosque in 2026.

The address is the useful part. The mosque stands on Cumhuriyet Caddesi in Kaleiçi, immediately beside Kalekapısı Square, at 36 degrees 53 minutes 11.74 seconds north, 30 degrees 42 minutes 16.32 seconds east. It is the landmark a visitor navigates by, not one they have to hunt for. The mosque is at Selçuk Mahallesi, İskele Caddesi No. 1 in Kaleiçi. Kale Kapısı and İsmetpaşa are the named tram stops serving this part of the historic centre; continue on foot into Selçuk Mahallesi toward İskele Caddesi. The minaret itself is accessible only by a 90-step staircase.

This is a mosque in use, so the ordinary courtesies apply: shoes off at the racks, shoulders and knees covered, a scarf over the hair for women, phones silent, and nobody walking across the front of a person at prayer. The second thing to expect is that the door may simply be shut. The public-body visitor listing identifies barrier-free access at the mosque. Guide service is listed as available. Yes. Antalya İl Müftülüğü documented congregational worship and visitor-guidance activity at the mosque in 2026.

The minaret is the photograph and it is a difficult one, because the shaft is 38 metres tall and stands on a base a further 6.5 metres high in a quarter of low buildings. Getting the whole of it in without tipping the camera back means stepping away from the immediate enclosure; Kalekapısı Square and the ground above the harbour give the distance that the mosque's own courtyard does not. Photograph the architecture and not the people in it. Yes. Antalya İl Müftülüğü documented congregational worship and visitor-guidance activity at the mosque in 2026.