The mosque is situated in the Yenikapı Street of Savaş neighborhood at Diyarbakır's walled historical district of Sur.

[1][3] Today, local people construe that the four columns at the minaret's base symbolize the four main denominations of Sunni Islam, namely Hanafi, Hanbali, Maliki and Shafi'i.

[1][2] During a shootout between the members of the Kurdish militant group Patriotic Revolutionary Youth Movement (YDG-H) and the police, two columns of the minaret suffered damage by automatic weapon fire in the night of November 25, 2015.

He said that "armed conflicts with heavy weapons within living areas of civilians like the walled district of Sur in Diyarbakır are not only against the Geneva Conventions, they also damage many historical buildings and mosques.

The damage seen on the Four-legged Minaret shows how important our demand is to end armed conflicts and -police- operations within living areas.