Ince Minaret Medrese

İnce Minareli Medrese (literally Slender Minaret Medrese) is a 13th-century madrasa (Islamic school) located in Konya, Turkey, now housing the Museum of Stone and Wood Art (Taş ve Ahşap Eserler Müzesi).

İnce Minareli Medrese
İnce Minareli Medrese, front facade.
Religion
AffiliationIslam
DistrictKonya
ProvinceKonya
RegionCentral Anatolia
Location
LocationKonya, Turkey
Location in Turkey
Geographic coordinates37.5222°N 32.2924°E / 37.5222; 32.2924
Architecture
TypeMadrasa
StyleIslamic, Seljuk architecture
Completed1279
Minaret(s)1

History

Built between 1258-1279 by the Anatolian Seljuk Sultanate vizier Sâhib Ata Fahreddin Ali who later founded the Anatolian beylik of Sâhib Ata.[1] 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. The entrance is surrounded by a band of elegant Thuluth, depicting Sura 36 and Sura 110.[2] The minaret was damaged by lightning in 1901, and was restored in 1956.[3] The building now houses a museum of stone and wooden objects dating from the Seljuk and Ottoman periods.

  • Old historical photo
  • Detail of the facade
  • The highly ornamented stone façade of the entrance of the İnce Minareli Medrese.
  • Model of the İnce Minareli Medrese, showing the original height of its minaret.

References
  1. Justin McCarthy, The Ottoman Turks, (Longman Publishing, 1997), 1.
  2. Annemarie Schimmel, Islamic Calligraphy, (Brill, 1970), 22.
  3. Malise Ruthven and Azim Nanji, Historical Atlas of Islam, (Harvard University Press, 2004), 44.
  • "İnce Minareli Medrese in Konya". ArchNet. Archived from the original on 2006-02-18. Retrieved 2017-03-15.
  • Many pictures from the Ince Minaret museum
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