DÜNDAR BEY MADRASA

It is located in Cami neighbourhood of Eğirdir district and locally known as Taş, i.e. Stone Madrasa.

It adjoins the city walls from outside and stands on a southeast-northwest oriented rectangular area; it is currently a single-story monument with an open courtyard and a single iwan.

The portal is on the southeast façade and it is flanked with a slit window. The northeast façade adjoining the fortification and the southwest façade facing the main street are both blind. The door in the middle of the northwest façade is a new addition as the structure is used as a shopping centre today.

The main southeast façade of the madrasa faces the northwest façade of the Hızır Bey mosque, aka Great Mosque; the portal protrudes out as a rectangular mass and it is known that it actually belonged to the Eğirdir Han commissioned by Sultan Giyath al-Din Kay Husraw II in 1237/38 and was brought here later.

The low-arched doorway of the portal leads into the vestibule which opens into the open courtyard, which is surrounded on three sides with pointed-arched porticoes resting on marble columns and covered with a pointed barrel vault.

On the northeast and southwest sides of the courtyard are three rooms each; rectangular rooms are covered with a pointed barrel vault. The vestibule is also flanked with two rectangular rooms covered with a pointed barrel vault. Narrow and long corridor-like rooms at the north and east corners of the courtyard were built to house the stairways leading to the non-extant upper floor.

The main iwan covered with a pointed barrel vault on the northwest side is flanked with two interconnected rectangular rooms.

In the centre of the courtyard is a square pool.