Category:Battal Gazi Külliyesi medrese

The medrese, extended and rebuilt repeatedly. The ‘Ümmühan Hatun Medresesi’ is a former Byzantine monastery (10th century), which was transformed into a medrese (school) by the Seljuk in 1208. That happened on request of Ümmühan Hatun, the mother of the Seljuk sultan Allaeddin Keykubat I. In the 16th century the Bektaşi Order turned the school into a ‘Çilehane’. (Çilehane = House of ascesis, where Sufis would go to pray in seclusion). The entrance is situated in the southern extern wall of the Seyitgazi complex. In the medrese, down some stairs and under a raised platform, there was the mausoleum for a Ummuhan Hatun.

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