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Fatih
Külliyesi which was bui lt at the same time
with the Fatih Mosque is composed of a school (mektep), library, 16 classes (medrese), a
hospice (imaret), an inn (kervansaray), a clinic (tabhane), an asylum (darüşşifa) and a
bath (hamam). The schools are at the south and north side of the mosque and are named as the Black Sea school, the
Mediterranean Sea school, Başkurşunlu school and Çifteayakkurşunlu school. These
schools are composed of 19 cells, one classroom, and four toilets. Schools are encircled
with porches and they have courtyards with fountains. Porch domes do
not have hoops.
The hospice is on the wide west part of the
clinic’s courtyard. It is made out of thick stone walls. Its plan could not have been
found but it is understood from the ruins that there were two domes with windows and a
wall connecting these.
The inn is at the south-eastern corner of
the clinic’s courtyard. The entrance supposed to be located at the beginning of the way from Public Library opening
to Nakşidil Tomb.
The clinic is in the south-eastern part of
the mosque. The clinic is a structure which is separated from the surrounding walls of the
mosque with a road and its surrounding walls cover the hospice and the inn with the
dimensions of 64x43 meter rectangle. Entrance is from the west.
The Bursa arch shows that the saloon was a
big open antechamber (eyvan) with 5.5 meters wide and 7 meters high . At both sides of the
antechamber there were two rooms which have stoves and connected to each other with inner
doors. The hole which is just in front of the saloon have two domes on both left and right
sides is uncovered to give the impression of a kind of side antechamber. The big dome with
an open antechamber was used in the summers, the two rooms upstairs were used in winter
times and namaz place with two domes, and with antechambers were used to put goods of the
guests.
Library building was constructed adjacent to the Fatih
Mosque (1742). In the period of Mahmud I In 1956, the written and published works were
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