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About Museum

GEVHER NESİBE MADRASAH AND ŞİFAHANE: one complex. And with this property it is the first social compşex in
KAYSERİ SELJUK MUSEUM Anatolia and it is called as “Çifteler”, “Çifte Madrasah”, “İkiz Madra-
sah”, “Gevher Nesibe Hatun Darüşşifa”, “şifa Hatun Madrasah”,
Today, Kayseri is hosting Seljuk Museum and also Gevher “Kayseri Tıbbiye”, “Gıyasiye madrasah. But it is not only a madra-
Nesibe Madrasah. Kayseri gets attraction with its rich history in sah or hospital it is also a complex which includes a cupola and a
middle Anatolia. From Kanesh Karum to Mazaka city, Caesarea Hammam. We dont know and we cannot reach to its foundation
to Kayseri, the city was under domination of Assyrians, Phrygians, certificate charter but from its inscription we can understand that,
Cimmerians, Lydians, Persians, Romans and Anatolian Seljuks it was built by II.Gıyaseddin Keyhüsrev with will of his sister Gevher
from B.C. 2000. Nesibe Sultan who died from tuberculosis. Its construction started
The Seljuk period is a wide and big progress period which in 1204 and it was finished in 1206. As we look its materials and
contains three hundred years in it. The effect of Seljuks to Anatolia resources we can say that; the two structure were built at the same
starts with 1071 battle of Manzikert and in 1080 with founding time. We can also get information about this construction from its
Anatolian Seljuk state by Kutalmışoğlu Süleyman Shah. And this inscription and there wrote the changes, informations about doctors
state marked Anatolia with many Works. Seljuks transferred culture who worked there.
in their land to Anatolia and they built many religious and also civil It is consists of rectangle planned two structures and it is
architecture ,many important monuments in field of art history. adjoined with one wall to eachother. There are two crown Gates at
Kayseri is one of the most significant Seljuk city with its Castle, front side. In 1955-56 years, Mahmut Akok published a relievo plan
Palace, Madrasah, Mosque and many other monumental constuc- and when we compare this plan with today’s plan we can see the
tions. Kayseri was called as Darü’l mülk and Darü’l feth and it hospital pat’s bais and its finished part of the construction. When
was zoned by I. Alaaddin Keykubad. And also Kayseri was on the we look from crown Gates to our opposite; the part which is in our
way of silk road which was very important in trade at that times. right side has four iwans, a rectangle open yard and this structure is
The Anatolian Seljuk madrasahs generally have two types. Open the Madrasah. The structure which is in our left side is bigger than
yard madrasahs and roofed yard madrasahs. These madrasahs the other one and it has also rectangle shape and it has an open yard
called as Darüş-şifa, Darü’t-tıp, Darüssıhha, Darülafiye, Bimaristan, too. This structure is called Şifahane (hospital)part. The restoration
Maristan, Me’menülistirahe, Darülmerza, Şifaiye and Şifahane Works of the structure on the left was finished in 1955-56.And at the
(hospital).These hospitals generally stated in Islamic social com- back side of it there is one more structure which lenghten parellel to
plexes and there was given also health services. Also the medicine it. This part is called mentall hospital. In front of mental hospital
students got their lectures there and specialized in medicine field. there is a Hammam. Both parts have pools in the middle of yards.
In front of the rooms and iwans there are porticos which open to
In Anatolian Seljuk period there were hospitals almost in every yards. The cupola of Gevher Nesibe Sultan is on the right back of the
city. The hospitals were built by emperor and his amily and these structure. The Cupola has an octogonal plan and it is two-storied
hospitals lived on with big foundations and by this way they didn’t like the other Anatolian Seljuk Cupolas. To the prayer room which
weigh on to state. In these centers; treatment service was free and is above, you can walk up with an elegant narrow stair. And you can
there worked many doctors, pharmacists. Gevher Nesibe Medical reach to grave room which is downstairs with a narrow stair. Upstairs
Madrasah and şifahane is one of the most significant construction is covered with a conical roof and the grave room is covered with a
in Kayseri by having both medicine faculty and hospital together in cradle vault. At the hospital part; there are rooms which open inside