Series VI: Medical Sciences – SUPPLEMENT ... - Krongres

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Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Bra�ov • Vol. 2 (51) - 2009 • Series VI
flux of the water is in the second yard to
which all the rooms are opened.
In the west entry of the first yard of the
construction, there is a double domed,
wide area bakery place where a kind of
bread named fodla is baked for the
patients.
Süleymaniye Dar’us Sifa was a
treatment center for mental patients and
other patients serving for a high number of
patients in its period and was greatly
improved with its bath, pharmaceutical
warehouse, special part sheltering heavy
mental patients, wide patient rooms with
high ceiling and aeration, madrasah related
to the construction just on the opposite,
shops providing income for the vaqf,
bakery, fountain, toilettes, Darüzziyafe
(restaurant) building on the east side.
The Specialities of Ottoman Dar’us
Sifas
Ottoman Empire had had its greatest
period under the rule of Suleiman the
Magnificent, its lands extended from
Austria to Arabia while Egypt was
included in North Africa, in addition, The
Red Sea and East Mediterranean had
become Turkish Seas. In every part of the
empire art and culture were paid attention,
many works of art, bridges, fountains,
baths, schools, mosques, dar’us sifas, etc
were built.
�stanbul, which was the capital of
Ottoman is magnificently reflecting most
of the works of art that we talk about today
and exhibiting the richness of the period.
The Selatin mosques and magnificent
social complexes which were built by
Sultans or their wives in �stanbul, today
also constitute the landmarks which
determine the silhouette of the city.
1. Military Hospitals: Mobile and
stable military hospitals were built in
different parts of the empire in order to
cover the needs of the army (1)
2. Palace Hospitals; The Hospital of
odalisques which were built in Topkapı
Palace in 15th century by Conquror Sultan
Mehmed and The Palace Hospital made by
Turkish-Mongol Emperor Ekber in
Fatehpur-Sikri in the date 1569 are the
oldest palace hospitals standing today with
their original conditions (2).
3. Dar’us Sifas and Madrasahs which
were built for public; Ottomans went on
working their dar’us sifas which were
coming from Seljuk Period with the
foundations. Some of these were
respectively dar’us sifas such as Bursa,
Edirne, �stanbul ve Selanik, Belgrad,
Budape�te extending to the Balkans
afterwards. Especially in the 16th century,
many treatment centers had been built but
apart from the Hospital of the odalisques in
the Topkapı Palace and the ones made by
Architect Sinan any of them determined to
reach our day. Generally, the aim of the
dar’us sifas built within the body of a
social complex is to serve for public and
benefit from the other places serving.
Fatih social complex was the first big
extensive constructions group and
education unit was built by Conqueror
Sultan Mehmed. Positioned on a hill
prevailing to �stanbul by Architect Sinan
and ordered by the sultan to be done by
selecting the best marbles, stones and
masters of the country, Süleymaniye social
complex which was built after nearly
hundred years from Fatih social complex is
an important religious and social center
with its dar’us sifa which we can accept as
a step in the development of Ottoman
health institutions with its library among
the counted libraries of our day, in the
medicine madrasah of where the best
professors of the period give lessons and
bring up famous doctors.
Orders were made to extract and bring
valuable marbles, colored columns from the
historical constructions in the empire in order