ŞAH SULTAN COMPLEX, EDUCATIONAL SCHOOL and FOUNTAIN-RESTORATION SUGGESTIONS

The Şah Sultan Complex, built in 1800-1801 by Şah Sultan, the sister of Selim III, consists of a sebil- küttâp, outbuildings, a fountain, and a hazira, which the Sultan endowed. Dating to the end of the eighteenth century, the Şah Sultan’s Sıbyan Mekteb and Sebil are unique structures called sebil-küttâp, which were designed with the function of a sebil on the lower floor and a school on the upper floor. This new type of building emerged in Egypt under Mamluk rule and was built in two different types in the Mamluk and Istanbul traditions over time. Sıbyan Mektepleri, which formed the cornerstone of the education system of the Ottoman period, are educational institutions that correspond to today's primary education and continued to be built until the late Ottoman period. Very few of the early Ottoman sıbyan schools have survived to the present day. Although many of the sıbyan schools built in the classical and late periods have survived to the present day, some of them have lost their function, abandoned or dilapidated, and some have lost their original architectural fiction with unqualified interventions, they should be kept alive as cultural assets that need to be preserved as part of our education and training tradition. In the eighteenth century, it is seen that many sıbyan schools were built in many parts of the expanding Ottoman city under the influence of Westernization. The Westernization period also influenced architectural works in primary school for a while.