MESCİDİ SIFAHANE MASJID

It is located in the park in Sultan Mesut street, to the west of the Karatay Madrasa, in Selçuklu district.

This cubic structure is crowned with a dome. Its south façade is faced with cut stones up to a certain height, and the rest up to the eaves cornice is of brickwork. Other façades feature roughly worked stones and rubble; the raised mortar lines between the stones point to the recent interventions in restorations.

In the upper part of the east façade is a horizontal timber beam with two rectangular slit windows beneath. On the south façade there are two rectangular windows in the lower part with cut stone facing and two slit windows in the brick upper part, straight over the lower ones. On the west part of the north is a rectangular window in the lower level.

A rectangular doorway in the north part of the west façade leads into the prayer hall, which is square in layout and crowned with a dome resting on a dodecagonal drum rising on a transition belt of triangles of brick.

The gypsum mihrab on the qibla wall was damaged in the course of recent restorations and it was replaced with a replica.

There is no extant inscription; however, this masjid is purported to be the only extant structure from the complex of Alaeddin hospital, medical madrasa and masjid, known to have been located within a wide vineyard and orchard at the left end of the Ferhuniye/ Süd Tekkesi street before the Ertash Gate, near the Seljuk Kiosk, to the north of Alaeddin Hill; thus, it should be dated to the first half of the thirteenth century.