Mustafa Cankara Kültür ve Kongre Merkezi

About Mustafa Cankara Kültür ve Kongre Merkezi

The Mustafa Cankara Kültür ve Kongre Merkezi is Beypazarı Municipality's culture and congress centre. It is named after Mustafa Cankara (1949-2002), an educator, poet and writer born in Beypazarı, who taught in the town for many years after training at the Ankara Teachers' School and the Diyarbakır Institute of Education, before moving to Istanbul and retiring as a Turkish teacher at Göztepe Secondary School. The centre stages municipal cultural events. As part of the Beypazarı Book and Culture Days, the comedy play Bir Nadir Komedi was performed here free of charge at 20:00 on 22 April 2025, and the municipality has also held a teachers' day concert here as well as an afternoon of meddah storytelling, orta oyunu, puppetry and Karagöz-Hacivat shadow theatre. The municipality's Mustafa Cankara Sinema Salonu reopened after a long closure on 20 December 2025, showing current releases for children and adults. A local news account places the cinema complex in Beytepe Mahallesi, the neighbourhood the ticketing sites Biletix and Biletinial give for the culture centre. Its own Instagram account, Beypazarı Mustafa Cankara Sineması, posts the weekly film programme, with posts through October and November 2026. Practical notes: ticketing sites give the address as Alparslan Türkeş Bulvarı No. 140 in Beytepe, while Yandex Maps lists the centre at Ulusoy Caddesi No. 11 in Ayvaşık Mahallesi, so check the location with the municipality before travelling. Beypazarı Municipality's culture office can be reached at [email protected].