Dogruyol Köyü Camii


Well worth a three-minute detour as you drive by on the lakeside road, the smaller of Dogruyol's two side-by-side mosques is a curious hybrid with a creamy sandstone minaret appended to the hunched grey basalt shell of a 10th-century Georgian chapel, with grass growing on its roof.

To find it, turn inland at the village petrol station.


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