ALIMOGLU HURSIT KUMBET

It is in gardens, in the Tahtı Süleyman Neigbourhood, on the northwest direction of Hasan Padişah Kumbet, It has no epitaph.Itis dated to the second half of the 13th century by looking at architectural shapes and features and probably dated to the last quarter of the 13th century by looking at its style. It has two storeys.Circular body rising on a square planned pedestal ends regularly, it gives the impression that it was left unfinished.From the east it is to enter the funerary flor with a door.Funerary floor is covered with cavetto vault.From the pedestal it can be passed to cylindrical body with a hoop. The entrance of the second flor is on the north direction.There are windows on east, west and South fronts each.


The pedestal of the kumbet is square planned with 8.33x8.33 meter dimensions.But the upper side of the kumbet left unfunished.Cavetto vaulted mummy floor under the kumbet which is nearly half of it was buried under the soil, is entered through a round door on east.With the two triangular chamfers on the corners of the pedestal it is passed to twelvecorners from four corners and then interlaced motif consisted of intertangled broken lines surround the whole body.Above this there is a second belt with slim profiled fish bone motif. Body is divided into vertical sections with vertical lined subtle embossed lines.The walls of the kumbet whichare up to 4.20 meter couldn’t be completed.It was also thought that it could be broken.Above the window the richest motif of the kumbet exist.Geometric adornments, muqarnas fillings are seen in here.But besides the windows moldings of the door tops left adornmentless.Only the southern window was adornedwith interlaced motif.This gives the impression of that this place was used as mihrab