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Mosque of the Apostles (Cathedral of Kars)
The 10th-century basalt church at the southern foot of the citadel in Kaleiçi, known both as the Church of the Apostles and as Kümbet Mosque.
The provincial directorate dates the building to 932–937 under Bagratid king Abas and describes a central plan with four niches. The Kars Museum page names the same monument both Church of the Apostles and Kümbet Mosque, and recalls a period when it housed the town museum. Cut basalt walls, a row of arched windows, and a conical tiled roof make it the second landmark of the Kaleiçi skyline. The Great Cathedral at Ani and the late-19th-century church at Ortakapı are different buildings; this stop is only the drum and conical roof below the citadel.
Why visit
To read the four-niche basalt body and conical roof in the same frame as the citadel wall above it.
For the tile texture of the conical roof, stand level with the low wall on the opposite side of the lane.
