Hazreti Süleyman Mosque (, ) is a mosque in

Diyarbakır Diyarbakır is the largest Kurdish-majority city in Turkey. It is the administrative center of Diyarbakır Province. Situated around a high plateau by the banks of the Tigris river on which stands the historic Diyarbakır Fortress, it is ...

, Turkey. The mostly ashlar structure was built between 1155 and 1169 by Nisanoğlu Ebul Kasim. The mosque is divided into three sections and has a square-based minaret, which has an inscription dated to 555 AH (1160 CE) according to the

Islamic calendar The Hijri calendar (), also known in English as the Islamic calendar, is a lunar calendar consisting of 12 lunar months in a year of 354 or 355 days. It is used to determine the proper days of Islamic holidays and rituals, such as the Ramad ...

. It contains the tombs of Süleyman, son of

Khalid ibn al-Walid Khalid ibn al-Walid ibn al-Mughira al-Makhzumi (; died 642) was a 7th-century Arabs, Arab military commander. He initially led campaigns against Muhammad on behalf of the Quraysh. He later became a Muslim and spent the remainder of his career ...

of the Bekir clan and his followers. The mosque was brought to its current state in 1631 by Silahdar Murtaza Pasha. File:Diyarbakır Hazreti Süleyman Mosque 2703.jpg, Diyarbakır Hazreti Süleyman Mosque Courtyard File:Diyarbakır Hazreti Süleyman Mosque 2712.jpg, Diyarbakır Hazreti Süleyman Mosque Interior File:Diyarbakır Hazreti Süleyman Mosque 2709.jpg, Diyarbakır Hazreti Süleyman Mosque Graves

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Mosques in Diyarbakır Buildings and structures completed in 1169 Mosques completed in the 1160s 12th-century mosques in Europe {{Turkey-mosque-stub