"Divriği Great Mosque and Hospital (Turkish: Divriği Ulu Cami ve Darüşşifa) is an ornately decorated mosque and medical complex built in 1299 in the small eastern Anatolian mountain town of Divriği, now in Sivas Province in Turkey. The architect was Hürremshah of Ahlat and the mosque was built on the order of Ahmet Shah, ruler of the Beylik of Mengücek. The inscriptions contain words of praise to the Anatolian Seljuk sultan Alaeddin Keykubad I. The adjoining medical center (darüşşifa) was built simultaneously with the mosque on the order of Turan Melek Sultan, daughter of the Mengücek ruler of Erzincan, Fahreddin Behram Shah." Wikipedia
201km from Erc city center.
Included on UNESCO's World Heritage List in 1985.
The shadow of the man praying.
The building is famous for being symmetrical. There are 3D carvings on the doors which form shapes of a man reading Quran and praying (3 different shadows) on the male entrance and a woman again praying on the female entrance on the East.
The female entrance door bears the carvings of the Heaven and it is known as the Textile Door due to the magnificient details of the reliefs.
There are many symbols of Islamic Mysticism describing the Other World, and the conditions to be accepted in Heaven.
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