page_title: Buruciye Medrese
section_title: Architecture
hierarchical_section_title: Buruciye Medrese / Architecture
caption_attribution_description: English: I quote from the notice at its entrance: Muzafer Burucerdi, who came from the area of Hamedan in Iran and settled down in Sivas was one of the richest people in Sivas. The Bürüciye Medrese was built under his orders in 1271 to teach positive science. The medrese which has an open courtyard and four eyvans (three walled vaulted antechambers) is one of the most beautiful examples of Seljuk stonework. The notice mentions a tomb of the founder and his two children with very fine tiles.
context_page_description: Buruciye Medrese or Buruciye Madrasah is a former medrese, in Sivas, Turkey. It was built during the reign of Seljuk sultan Gıyaseddin Keyhüsrev III in 1271.
context_section_description: The architect of the medrese building is not known. The building is designed in the form of old Turkic medreses in Central Asia. It has a near-quadrat plan. Its architecture has the most regular symmetry among the medreses in Anatolia. It is constructed in a ground floor and aa mezzanine, with four iwans around an open courtyard. The main facade wall is built in ashlar. The side walls are of partly ashlar and rubble masonry, while the backside wall is also of rubble masonry. Also bricks gathered are used in the building. The building's walls are 115–150 cm (45–59 in) thick depending on their position. The main iwan, which resembles a lacework with the patterns of its muqarnas, has the dimesions 6.50 m × 7.80 m (21.3 ft × 25.6 ft). The outflow crown gate is flanked by two muqarnas windows and two grooved towers in the corners. The portal's iwan is surrounded by inscriptions. Its mquarnas is decorated with geometric figures. The domed room behind the window at right of the main gate conyains a mihrab, and it is assumed that the room was used as a masjid. The room behind the left window in the facade is reserved for the tomb,  which contains the sarcophagi of the endower and his children. The entire walls of the tomb were initially covered with rich hexagonal tiles in blue and black. The tiles on the walls survived partly today. The endower's full name is written in an inscription belt running around at the top of the tomb room walls, just below the lines of tile-covered muqarnases.
  There are porches of about 1.10 m (3 ft 7 in) width on two sides of the courtyard. The pointed arches of the porches are carried by 270 cm (110 in) high round columns of nearly 45 cm (18 in) diameter. It is assumed that the columns were gathered for reuse because some of the column  capitals are of Corinthian order, some of them bear Byzantine monograms. There are no porches at the main gate's courtyardside iwan and at the iwan across from the main gate. 
  There are eight cells facing the courtyard. The cells have a door opening to the courctyard, but no windows. The ceiling of the cells behind the narrow porch is in the form of barrel vault. The cells next to the portal feature staircase leading to the roof. Each of the staircases situated at both sides of the main gate's iwan lead to the separate mezzarine rooms with windows.
  Buruciye Medrese is considered as "one of the best examples of the Seljuk architecture in Anatolia having the most harmonious and completeness with its architectural elements and ornaments. "
caption: A view from the courtyard.
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