The Yivli Minaret Mosque stands in Kaleiçi, Antalya's old town, near Kalekapısı Square. The article names no architect. After the Seljuk conquest of Antalya in 1216, a mosque was built around 1230 on the site of a ruined Byzantine church. The minaret was likely commissioned under Alaaddin Keykubad I, who reigned from 1220 to 1237. The mosque fell into disrepair in the 14th century, and Mehmet Bey of the Hamidids rebuilt it in 1373.
The article calls the style Anatolian Seljuk. The prayer hall has six domes in two rows, supported by twelve columns with reused capitals, probably from Roman or Byzantine buildings. The red brick minaret is 125 feet (38 m) high on a square stone base, with eight fluted sections that were once covered in turquoise and dark blue tiles.
It housed the Antalya Museum for a period. Restorations in 1953, 1961 and from 2007 to 2010 uncovered water channels, now visible through a glass floor.
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