Ahi Evran Zaviyesi


The gloomy interior of this 13th-century technical school for artisans and craftspeople is great to poke about in. It's crammed with a jumble-sale-style delight of dusty exhibits from calligraphy to metalwork, and agricultural implements to carpet looms. It's 1km down Talas Caddesi, opposite the cemetery.


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