Yakutiye Madrasa

Yakutiye Madrasa (Turkish: Yâkutiye Medresesi) is a historical 14th-century Madrasa in Erzurum, Turkey.

[1] The madrasa was built in 1310 by order of a local governor of the Ilkhanids, Hoca Yakut, and it is named after him.

[2] It is a rectangular building with an inner courtyard, surrounded by the rooms for the students.

Today the building is used as a museum dedicated to ethnography and Turkish and Islamic art.

[2] The Yakutiye Madrasa mosque has a vault decorated with muqarna design and a central oculus, which was constructed in 1310 and ultimately derived from the vault of the Armenian gavit narthex.

Vault design of the Yakutiye Madrasa
The eastern view of Yakutiye Madrasa at sunset