Great Mosque of Kars

Kars Ulu Camii is a mosque located in the Kaleiçi Neighborhood of Kars Province, Turkey. It was commissioned by Dilaver Pasha, the Beylerbey of Kars, during the reign of Sultan Ibrahim in 1643. The mosque was burned and destroyed during the years of Russian occupation of Kars after the 1877-1878 Ottoman-Russian War, and the structure was damaged during World War I and later destroyed by earthquakes that occurred after the war. In 1997 it underwent a restoration that caused the loss of its originality.