Ince Minaret Medrese
| İnce Minareli Medrese | |
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İnce Minareli Medrese, front facade. |
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| Basic information | |
| Location |  Konya, Turkey |
| Affiliation | Islam |
| Region | Central Anatolia |
| Province | Konya |
| District | Konya |
| Architectural description | |
| Architectural type | Madrasa |
| Architectural style | Islamic, Seljuk architecture |
| Completed | 1279 |
| Specifications | |
| Minaret(s) | 1 |
İnce Minareli Medrese (literally Slender Minaret Medrese) is a 13th century medrese (Islamic school) located in Konya, Turkey.
[edit] History
Built between 1258-1279 by the Anatolian Seljuk Sultanate vizier Sâhib Ata Fahreddin Ali who later founded the Anatolian beylik of Sâhib Ata. The minaret was originally much taller than the section that survives today, and had an unusually slender appearance in comparison to the minarets of other contemporary Seljuk mosques, hence the name of the structure.
The building has a highly ornamented stone façade which includes relief work of scripts, geometric patterning and vertical ribbon-like lines. Restored in 1956, the edifice is used today as a museum where stone and wooden artefacts dating from the Seljuk and Ottoman periods are displayed.
[edit] Gallery
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The highly ornamented stone façade of the entrance of the İnce Minareli Medrese.
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Model of the İnce Minareli Medrese, showing the original height of its minaret.
[edit] External links
- (fact sheet) "İnce Minareli Medrese in Konya". ArchNet. http://archnet.org/library/sites/one-site.tcl?site_id=7562 (fact sheet).
- Many pictures from the Ince Minaret museum
