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Bimarhane or Darüşşifa Medrese in Amasya

I gave this medrese a sub-gallery. It dates from 1309 and was built as a mental hospital by Ilduş Hatun, wife of the Iklhanid sultan Olcaytu. It may have been the first place where one tried treating people with mental disorders using music, The Ilkhans were the successors to Genghis Khan's Mongols, who had defeated the Anatolian Seljuks. It is built on the plan of a Seljuk medrese (and has the monumental gate to go with that type). In 2011 I found it being restored, it used to occasionally house an exhibition of some kind.
Amasya Bimarhane medrese
Amasya Bimarhane medrese
Amasya Bimarhane medrese
Amasya Bimarhane medrese
Amasya Bimarhane medrese
Amasya Bimarhane medrese
Amasya Bimarhane medrese
Amasya Bimarhane medrese
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