Balikli Lake (Halil-ür Rahman and Ayn-i Zeliha Lake, Center): The lake is located inside the city center and has the appearance of a natural aquarium with the fishes swimming inside the waters and with the centuries old plane trees and willow trees.

The lakes are two in number; Ayn-i Zeliha and Halil-ür Rahman. As Prophet Ibrahim begins to struggle with the monarch of the period Nemrut and with the idols that his folk worships and begins to break and destroy such idols defending the idea of a single god, he was cast into fires by Nemrut from the location which is known as the Sanliurfa Castle. As the God himself orders the fire as "O fire, be cool and secure to Ibrahim.", the fire turn into water and the stones turn into fishes. The place where Prophet Ibrahim falled is named as "Halil-ür Rahman Lake". The step daugter of Nemrut Zeliha falls in love with Prophet Ibrahim. Zeliha begs and prays for Prophet Ibrahim to his step father Nemrut. As she realizes that Prophet Ibrahim is fallen into fire, she casts herself into the fire. The place where Zeliha falled is called as “Ayn-i Zeliha Lake“.

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