Mosques

The huge outline of Kocatepe Camii in Kızılay is the symbol of Ankara. It is one of the world's largest mosques but is also very new (built between 1967 and 1987).

Ankara's most revered mosque is Hacı Bayram Camii, near the Temple of Augustus and Rome. Hacı Bayram Veli was a Muslim 'saint' who founded the Bayramiye dervish order in about 1400. Ankara was the order's centre, and Hacı Bayram Veli is still revered by pious Muslims. The mosque was built in the 15th century, with tiling added in the 18th century. Surrounding shops sell religious paraphernalia (including wooden toothbrushes as used, supposedly, by the Prophet Mohammed).

If you turn left on leaving the hisar and walk downhill past the antique shops you'll come to the 13th-century Arslanhane Camii, with pieces of Roman masonry in its walls.