The Stone Building, brought to the city by the Konya Metropolitan Municipality, combines its historical texture with modern digital elements, offering a unique experience to visitors.
The Stone Building, designed by Architect Muzaffer, was begun in 1917 and completed in 1922. Initially used as the Konya Girls' Teacher School, it later became the Rectorate building of Selçuk University. Today, the Stone Building serves as the headquarters of the Konya Metropolitan Municipality and houses six exhibition rooms, each reflecting three main themes: Konya’s Bookstore, nature, culture, and the city. These rooms showcase Konya's historical journey from the past to the present, with exhibits covering the city’s prehistoric, Ottoman, Seljuk, and Roman-Byzantine periods.
One of the key attractions is the history room within the Konya Digital Promotion Center, which spans four significant periods. Visitors entering this room are greeted by a digital representation of the Ivriz Rock Relief amidst wheat spikes. The room features interactive digital screens that provide insights into Konya’s agricultural history. Visitors can touch the screens to explore visual and audio information about various periods. The room also displays transitions between periods, highlighting Konya’s prehistoric, Hittite, Roman-Byzantine, and Seljuk eras. A model of Konya’s geography is showcased in the center, accompanied by briefings about the Roman and Christian periods, Byzantine art in Konya, the city's rise as a capital, and its subsequent reconstruction. The ceiling of the room features figures depicting prehistoric times.
The Agriculture Room within the Promotion Center also includes three local figures speaking in the Konya dialect. These figures, using lifelike facial expressions, inform visitors about Konya’s agricultural products. Alongside them, glass display cases exhibit Konya’s key agricultural products, including carrots, sugar beets, sunflowers, cherries, tulips, cumin, mushrooms, peas, eggs, barley, corn, melons, and many more, along with their production percentages.
One of the most striking areas in the building is the section featuring doors that transport visitors through history. Each door, designed in the architectural style of the corresponding period, represents four major eras. The doors are equipped with sensors that stop the music when closed. The prehistoric door leads to Çatalhöyük, the Roman-Byzantine door to Sille, where the Aya Elenia Church is located, the Seljuk door to the Karatay Medrese, with views of the Eşrefoğlu Mosque, and the Ottoman door, which opens to images of the Selimiye Mosque, the Bedesten, and the Mevlana Mausoleum.
The final room in the Promotion Center showcases modern Konya, emphasizing the city’s activities and achievements under the Konya Metropolitan Municipality. It features two bicycles, and visitors can experience the sensation of cycling through the streets of Konya. The room also highlights the "Konya Model Municipality" and includes a bicycle presented by Ömer Bardakçı, President of the Konya Cyclists and Motorcyclists Association, to Konya Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Uğur İbrahim Altay.