Kesik Minare

The Kesik Minare Cami (Broken Minaret Mosque), Korkut Cami or Cumanın Cami standing in the streets of Kaleiçi (Old Antalya) in southern Turkey, was originally built as a Roman temple in the 2nd century AD.

The minaret was added in the early 13th century when the Sultanate of Rum established their rule in Antalya and converted the church into a mosque.

In 1361, when the crusader king of Cyprus took Antalya from the Seljuks, it was consecrated a church again, only to become a mosque once more during the rule of Şehzade Korkut, son of the Ottoman sultan Bayezid II.

The main building was destroyed in a fire in 1800, but the surviving minaret, located today on Kaleiçi Hespçi Street, is known as the Kesik Minare.

The structure officially reopened as a mosque in 2021 on 5 March, the day Antalya was conquered by the Seljuk Empire.