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05-Aug-2018

Yakutiye medrese Erzurum

The Yakutiye Medresesi (a medrese is a Koran School)has been built in 1310 by the Mongol Cemaleddin Hoca Yakut Gazani. It houses a decent although small museum, but I mainly like it’s nice setting in a park, other ancient buildings standing close, and the stone carving on the exterior. As so often it is mainly the ornamental gate that attracts the attention.

There is also a türbe or grave monument at the end of the central hall, that I have never managerd to visit, but that can be seen from the outside.

This is its minaret, compare this complex design with the much simpler one on the Çifte Minareli Medresesi.


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