Deveciler Hanı (FATİH MEHMET PAŞA HAN)

The Deveciler Han, which has no inscription, must have been built during the period of Çelebi Mehmet and his son Murat II, during the reconstruction activities that were intensely seen in Sulusokaklar. When the architectural development of the inn and the mukarnas above the niches on both sides of the entrance gate are evaluated, the possibility of it being built during the reign of Çelebi Mehmet and Murat II becomes stronger. In this period, Tokat Bedesteni, Takyeciler Mosque, Tokat Ulu Mosque, Yörgüç Paşa Hamam, Hot Tooth Helası, Rüstem Çelebi Mosque built in Sulusokak have survived to the present day. Tokat has never seen such an intense reconstruction activity in any other period.

It is thought that the inn registered in the Fatih Sultan Mehmet Foundation may have been forgotten by adding the Fatih part and the original name, Sultan I. Mehmet Foundation, may have been forgotten.

The entrance of the inn, arranged as two floors, is in the middle of the north façade. In front of the entrance door, there is an area covered with a dome, niches with mukarnas decorations on both sides of this area. On either side of the gate, there are 10 shops facing the road, 10 in the east direction and 5 in the west direction, two of the shops in the east direction could not be repaired due to the unsuitability of the existing road. Since three of the five shops, which have been repaired today, were used as masjids, three of the shops were separated on one side and two on the other, and a stone staircase was placed between them, which is not a masjid today. Due to this application, the last shop overflowed from the façade level as far as the width of the stairs. This situation also reveals that a small shop-top masjid with a simple mihrab is original.

The courtyard is accessed through a vaulted area, there are two stairs that provide an exit to the upper floor adjacent to the northern porticoes of the courtyard. There are 55 rooms and 2 hela, including 27 rooms on the lower floor and one hela on the upper floor, 28 rooms and one hela. Each room has a cabinet niche and a stove for putting things. The halas were moved to the camel area and removed from the rooms. The entrance eyvan is arranged as an eyvan above.

On the east side of the inn, there is a camel section covered with two large vaults through the gate to the east of the courtyard. The outer door of the camel section was closed during the renovation. Located on the historical Silk Road, the han has the opportunity of single accommodation of the period and is one of the oldest city inns outside Bursa, the first capital of the Ottoman Empire.

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