YÜRÜK DEDE (DOĞAN BEY) TOMB

It is estimated that this building was built in the 14th century as a result of the evaluation of the architectural elements of the tomb in Öksüzler Street. The body walls of Yörük Dede Kümbeti, which attracts attention with its five-sided plan, are made of rubble stone and cassette with fragments of bricks between the stones. The pulley on the body walls has an octagonal edge and three rows of brick beams are used. The building is covered with an eight-sided pyramid-shaped cone from the outside. The most interesting aspect of the building is that the bricks with longer edges in the bottom row of the cone shrink upwards and the size of the bricks decreases and the number of bricks is kept as much as possible. The inner plan of the cupola is five-sided as it is on the outside. But; with the very narrow mihrab edge placed at the corner of the Qibla, the plan has been made to feel six-sided. It was enlarged with two arched niches in the west and pointed niches with broken edges in the east. A small mihrab was built in the corner just to the left of the entrance gate of the tomb. The cover of the tomb, like almost all Seljuk tombs under the conical roof was made as a domed. Before passing from the body wall to the dome, there are pendantives with small mucarnasses. Although the plan of the tomb is five-sided, there are six pendantives. The upper edges of the mihrab, which is located on the left corner of the South gate of the tomb, go up to the dome skirt, thus forming the sixth edge which is very close to each other. The dome has no internal pulley. It is not known whether there is a funeral under the Yörük Dede tomb. But since almost all of the Seljuk tombs have funerals, they must be found here. It is possible to expose the funeral with an excavation.