Sırçalı Medrese

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The building is very beautiful, but they do not show the interior spaces, it uses a foundation. And they look at you strangely ...

According to the inscription on the crown gate, it was built in 640 (1243) by the Seljuk Emir Bedreddin Muslih. It is also known as the Muslihiyye Madrasa because of the founder of the building known as Sırçalı Madrasa due to its glazed brick and tile decorations. In the tile inscription in the main iwan, the architect of his master, Muhammed b. It is stated to be Muhammed et-Tusi. Madrasah XVII, where interpretation was taught with Hanafi fiqh during the Seljuk and Ottoman periods. century began to be ruined, demand cells XIX. In the century, it was completely demolished and replaced with mud brick rooms and used until 1924. The building, which was overhauled in 1943-1954, was opened to visitors in 1960 as the Tomb Monuments Section of the Konya Museum. Based on the project of Mahmut Akok, it was restored by the Ministry of National Education in 1969.nThe building, which is in the type of madrasas with open courtyards, has two floors and two iwans and is 17 × 30.50 m in the east-west direction. It has a rectangular plan in size. Stone is used for exterior walls and brick for interior architecture.nnThere is a protruding iwan-like portal on the east side of the madrasa. The part between the portal arch based on the pillars with the Kenger head and the rectangular outer frame is decorated with plant and geometric motifs. These ornaments, consisting of rumi and palmettes with closed star forms, are rich examples of Anatolian Seljuk stonemasonry. Zigzag patterned milk décors, muqarnas hoods and geometric decorations made of star arms on the mihrabiyes on both sides of the deep niche attract attention. There is a seven-line date inscription written in naskh letters in a three-segmented arch on the low-arched entrance door.nnThe courtyard with a barrel-vaulted iwan is reached through the portal. The porticos surrounding the courtyard are treated as Bursa at the bottom, with lightened thick legs, and pointed arches at the top. The covers of the porches are cradle in the middle and cross-vaulted on the sides. The four student cells, lined in the north and south, were also renovated during the repair, like a portico.nThere is a door opening to the courtyard and a loophole window each. The main iwan, which is located opposite the entrance and which is the biggest place of the madrasa, is reached by three steps. The vault of the iwan, whose upper part was destroyed, together with the siege belt, were repaired. There is a mihrab niche on the qibla wall. The large closed rooms on both sides were planned as winter classrooms, covered with a dome and illuminated by windows opening to the courtyard and west facade. The northwest room with a mihrab on the qibla wall was also used as a mosque. There is a pool in the middle of the stone paved courtyard.nnThe rich glazed brick and mosaic tiled ornaments made the madrasa famous. The building, which used to be completely covered with tiles, today only has tile decoration on the western iwan, the ceiling of the tomb, the pillars bearing the porticoes, the window tops of the domed rooms and the main iwan. Tiles in fîrûze, aubergine purple and cobalt blue were placed on the surfaces in mosaic technique. The geometric examples that decorate the entrance iwan and the tomb dome are continued with star arms and swastikas on the rear wall of the main iwan.nnThe most magnificent decorations of the madrasa are the chess kufi inscriptions embroidered with glazed brick in the vault, the master inscription with tiles and the knitted kufi inscriptions on the windows, as well as the naskh verse inscriptions that travel around the iwan arch in two generations, the curved branch, rhumi and palmette motifs. There is a strip of palmette in two colors extending between the two inscription belts without cutting each other. To the right of the crown gate is the tomb of Bedreddin Muslih. The square-planned and two-storey tomb is reached by a two-step staircase. The building is illuminated by windows from the east and west, and is covered with a low dome in the form of a vault. In the tomb, which has three sarcophagi, the funeral floor descending from under the stairs is covered with cross vaults. There is a room in the south of the entrance symmetrical to the tomb. The single-storey entrance iwan was repaired as it collapsed in time, but since the covering problem of the space between the Bursa arch connected to the entrance section and the siege arch of the iwan could not be solved, muqarnas filling