Location: Sanliurfa
Top Things to do in Sanliurfa
6 Sacred & Religious Sites in Sanliurfa That You Shouldn't Miss
Urfa, officially known as Şanlıurfa (pronounced [ʃanˈlɯuɾfa]; Arabic: الرها ar-Ruhā; Kurdish: Riha), and known in ancient times as Edessa, is a city with 561,465 inhabitants in south-eastern Turkey, and the capital of Şanlıurfa Province. Urfa is a multiethnic city with a Turkish, Kurdish, and Arab population. Urfa is situated on a plain about eighty kilometres east of the Euphrates River. Its climate features extremely hot, dry summers and cool, moist winters.
Restaurants in Sanliurfa
1. Hayat Bin Kays El Harrani Turbe ve Camisi
2. Halil Ul Rahman Mosque
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 102 reviews
Reviewed By tugo2016
Right int he centre of town you can visit this while visiting the Abramah cave, and the BALIKLIGOL area. Its all in the same central park
3. Rizvaniye Mosque
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 71 reviews
Reviewed By apricot44 - Turkey, null
In the inscription on the entrance to the mosque,AD. 1736 it is written that the mosque and madrasa were built by Ridvan Ahmet Pasha. It is known that Ridvan ahmet Pasha, the governor of Raqqa, put pressure and coercion on the workers working to finish the mosque and madrasa early, so the mosque was called zulumiye mosque among the people.blocks of neatly cut limestone were used as building materials. From the date of construction of the mosque, the wooden entrance door was made with incredible craftsmanship.it is the art of kundekari that makes the door so valuable.this art is the art of woodworking, in which small pieces of wood cut entirely in geometric forms are interlaced together to form a large surface. Adjacent to the eastern wall of the mosque is a single-honor cut stone minaret with an onikigen body . In the spaces between the mukarnas of cheers, relief fish figures were processed with their heads up. Below them is a border consisting of relief palmettes in the horizontal belt. Fish; in some teachings symbolize fertility, renewal, increase and reproduction.
