This region of Anatolia was conquered by the Turks at the beginning of the 11th century. In 1228–29 Emir Ahmet Shah founded a mosque, with its adjoining hospital, at Divrigi. The mosque has a single prayer room and is crowned by two cupolas. The highly sophisticated technique of vault construction, and a creative, exuberant type of decorative sculpture – particularly on the three doorways, in contrast to the unadorned walls of the interior – are the unique features of this masterpiece of Islamic architecture.
Located on the slopes below the castle of Divriği, Sivas Province in central eastern Turkey, the Great Mosque and Hospital of Divriği is a remarkable building combining a monumental hypostyle mosque with a two storey hospital, which includes a tomb. Founded by the Mengücekide emir Ahmed Shah following the victory of the Seljuk Turks over the Byzantine army at the battle of Malazgirt in 1071, the mosque is dominated externally by the hexagonal, pointed roofed dome over its mihrab (prayer niche), a cupola over the ablutions basin in the centre of the prayer hall and elaborately carved monumental stone portals on the north and west. Internally, four rows of four piers create five naves roofed by a variety of intricately carved stone vaults. The adjoining hospital, the Darush-shifa, was founded by Ahmet Shah’s wife Turan Melek and designed by the architect Hurrem Shah, in 1228-1229. It is entered via a monumental, elaborately carved stone portal on the west, leading into a double height atrium formed by four massive piers supporting a dome with an oculus over a central pool, around which are located the hospital rooms.
When the afternoon sun falls on the entrance door of the mosque, a standing silhouette of a man appears from the side, made of shadows. In front of this silhouette is another rectangular shadow. These shadows are believed to be a man reading the Koran and praying. This photo is taken at that time.See shadow.
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Built in the second half of the 19th century in cut stone, it has an open courtyard and two floors. The rectangular building has three entrances with iron wings and round arches on the east, south and north facades. The floor of the central courtyard is paved with block stones. There is an elliptical pool in the center of the courtyard and two double-headed lions with water flowing from their mouths in opposite directions in the center of the pool. To the south and north of the central courtyard are porticoes formed by six large columns with one-piece cylindrical bodies. The columns in the porticoes are connected to each other with round arches. The rooms behind the portico and the portico are covered with barrel vaults. Externally, each space is covered with a hipped roof and covered with tiles. It is still used as a business center and there are cafeterias on the ground and upper floors.
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Grand Mosque of Divriği and Darüşşifa, historical mosque and hospital in Divriği district of Sivas. The mosque was built in 1228-29 by bey Mengücekli Ahmed Shah, and the Darüşşifa was built on the same date by his wife Turan Melek, to an architect named Hürrem Şah.
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Sivas Atatürk and Congress Museum is a museum in Sivas. The museum, which was previously used as a school (Ottoman: Sivas Mekteb-i Sultânîsi), was a high school opened for education in 1887. The building, which Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and the delegation used as headquarters for a while and was a Sultani (high school) at that time; It gained a historical identity when the Sivas Congress convened here between September 4-12th.,1922.
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