HUMA 1845 Lecture Notes - Lecture 91: Ottoman Architecture, Soup Kitchen, Apsis
7 Jan 2018
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Topic: early ottoman architecture: interplay of seljukid and byzantine. In the early centuries of the ottoman state (14h-15th centuries) Seljukid architecture provided the main source of inspiration for. Early ottomans inherited the seljukid practice of the building of the clusters of public institutions, called kuliyye. Kuliyyes included public institutions that fulfilled the religious, educational, and other needs of muslims population in early ottoman cities. Usually, they included a mosque, a religious school, and a mausoleum. One of the earliest kuliyye was built by the ottoman sultan orhan. Sultan orhan"s kuliyye included a mosque, a public bath and a public kitchen. Orhan also sponsored the building of kuliyye in bursa, which included a mosque, a bath, a soup kitchen, a religious school, and an inn (tur. han). Subsequent ottoman sultans and dignitaries continued to build kuliyye throughout the ottoman lands. Over time, they became ubiquitous signifiers of ottoman urban spaces.
