Kurşunlu Mosque

This guide to the Kurşunlu Mosque in Muğla traces its lead-covered dome back to 1493 and the local lord, Şucaeddin Bey, who raised the building in barely two years. Inside, it lingers on an unexpected feature for an austere Ottoman mosque of that era: painted ships and an image of the Kaaba, made with pigments shipped in from Rhodes by unnamed artists. You'll also hear from the traveling writer Evliya Çelebi, who passed through generations later and could not stop praising the place, and about the madrasa wing that once stood beside it before later renovators tore it down.