Milas Taş Eserler Müzesi

Milas Stone Works Museum is located in Milas, inside Beçin Castle. In the museum, in addition to 35 stone works belonging to the Beyliks and Ottoman periods, ethnographic works related to practices such as education in the madrasa and burial traditions, as well as miniatures of examples of Anatolian madrasas, are also exhibited.

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The museum building, which was used for a period as Ahmet Gazi Madrasa, was commissioned in 1375 by Ahmet Gazi Bey of the Menteşeoğulları, according to the construction inscription above its door.

Milas Museum Directorate

The madrasa, which contains ten rooms arranged around a courtyard, is entered through an eyvan from the monumental gate on its south side, which was built in the Gothic architectural style.

Milas Museum Directorate

Directly opposite the gate is the tomb of Ahmet Gazi with its high dome. The dome of the tomb is covered with tiles.

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Inside the tomb, it has not been determined to whom the second grave, imitating Ahmet Gazi’s grave, belongs.

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The tomb opens onto the madrasa courtyard with a pointed arch containing Gothic lines. Of the two lion reliefs holding flags on the outer corners of this arch, Ahmet Gazi’s name is written on the flag held by the one on the right. Through the small arched door on the north, one passes from the tomb to the outside of the madrasa.

Milas Museum Directorate

The facade of the madrasa, the east wall, six meters of the west wall from the facade onward, the inner walls facing the courtyard, as well as the corridors and the insides of the doors, are clad in cut küfeki stone.

The madrasa rooms, covered with a barrel vault, are dim and small. Each room has a fireplace and two or three cupboards. The roof of the rooms was covered with earth and turned into an ayazlık. This area is reached by the corridors and stairs on both sides.

At a date after the completion of the madrasa construction, a small arched fountain with two opposing lion reliefs was added adjoining the outer wall of the room to the east of the tomb. The square marble paving in the middle of the courtyard shows that there was once a şadırvan here.

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Source: Muğla Provincial Directorate of Culture and Tourism Address: Beçin Castle / Muğla