Publication Date
Section covered: Shaban 628 / June 1231; Annihilation: Shaban 637 / February 1240
Type
Other
Language
Undetermined
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Library
Museum With No Frontiers
Record ID
monument;ISL;tr;Mon01;6;ar
Library Location
15 km northeast of Akseri on the Konya-Kayseri road, Agzigara village, Türkiye
Date
Section covered: Shaban 628 / June 1231; Annihilation: Shaban 637 / February 1240
Notes
The Agzigara Inn consists of an open courtyard and a covered section, and is considered an important example of courtyard inns during the Anatolian Seljuk era. The main materials used in the building are crushed stone cemented with mortar, while the entire walls, buttresses, arches, arches and bridge supports are covered with decorated glaze stone. The corner towers and high thick walls were supported by buttresses. As for the upper levels of the facades, there are windows in the form of rectangular openings (like openings). Two opposite water fountains were installed in the western wall of the courtyard, which can be entered through a door from the north. The courtyard was designed in the shape of an approximately square, and consisted of iwans. The western part of the entrance iwan and one of the sections on the western side also have double porticoes, while the southern side and the southern section of the western wall consist of roofed rooms. In the middle of the eastern side of the courtyard there is an entrance leading to the covered section. In the middle of the courtyard there is a building for an open mosque located above a square canopy composed of four pillars connected to each other by pointed arches. The mosque can be entered via two stairs from its eastern side. Inside the mosque we see a square space measuring 4x4 square metres, surmounted by a dome rising above niches decorated with muqarnas. It is said that a water fountain was present below, but it no longer exists. The roofed section of the inn is rectangular, or almost square, in shape, consisting of an east-west corridor surrounded by six arched and perpendicular wings extending from north to south. The dome above the main wing resembles the dome of a mosque, and is supported by niches decorated with stalactites. As for the inner and outer doors of the Agzigara Inn, they show similarities in design and decoration, as they are decorated with geometric shapes. On the open mihrab of the mosque you can see harmonious ornaments. While the Anatolian Seljuk inns had entrance doors parallel to the courtyards and roofed sections on the same axis, in this building the courtyard door was placed sideways. The building, the mosque and its courtyard are considered rare and unusual examples of Anatolian architecture.
Sample Text
İnci Kuyulu Ersoy “Khan Agziqara (Inn)” in Discover Islamic Art. Museum Without Borders, 2026. 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=monument;ISL;tr;Mon01;6;ar
