Fatma Sultan Ottoman Primary School

Fatma Sultan Ottoman Primary School

Year Built
16th century
Commissioned By
Unknown
Architect
Unknown
Location
Fatih
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Changes After Construction

  1. 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.

  2. Today, it is used as a venue for education/workshop activities.

  3. The fact that the building has been in functional use recently indicates that periodic arrangements have been made in the interior.

Featured Highlights

  • 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.

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