Mengujekids

Centered in Divriği; high-relief sculptural stone portals, grand hypostyle mosques, and integrated medieval healing complexes (dârüşşifâ).

Divriği Hospital Complex stone carvings and western portal

Sivas / Central Anatolia, Turkey

Divriği Dârüşşifası and Hospital Complex

The Mengücekli hospital complex with its Gothic-reminiscent pointed arch entrance, octagonal pool courtyard, and vaulted iwan, commissioned by Turan Melek Hatun in 1229.