| The Great
Mosque and Hospital of Divrik (Divrigi):
Established by the wife ofAhmet Shah, the Mengujukid ruler of the city,
in 1228-29, the mosque manifests the new development of hypostyle mosques
in Anatolia (the reduction of the court), and the fusion of several traditions
in the nascent architectural vocabulary. Very complex, and sometimes chaotic,
themes and modes of stone carving appear in the portals. This makes the
entire structure a curious museum of the various Anatolian decorative styles
of the period. |
