Fatma Sultan Ottoman Primary School

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Construction Year:

16th century

Location:

Fatih, İstanbul

Ordered By:

Unknown

Architect:

Unknown

Changes After Construction:
  • The building has been listed among the works whose restoration was completed by the General Directorate of Foundations and will be put back into service.
  • Today, it is used as a venue for education/workshop activities.
  • The fact that the building has been in functional use recently indicates that periodic arrangements have been made in the interior.
Prominent Features:
  • It consists of a two-story wooden volume and an adjacent single-story additional volume.
  • The source mentions that wooden and masonry volumes coexist in the same settlement and dates them to the 16th century.
  • It is among the surviving examples of the Ottoman period primary school (sıbyan mektebi) typology.
  • The building is positioned as an educational unit on a neighborhood scale.