13th-Century Seljuk Inn in Konya: Kuruçeşme Inn

Kuruçeşme Inn is located on Konya-Beyşehir route and also known as Hanönü Inn. Standing on an east-west rectangular area the inn comprises a courtyard and a covered section.

In the middle of the east façade is the rectangular portal with a pointed arch, not protruding out. Its low-arched doorway opens into the deep entrance iwan covered with a pointed barrel vault and leading into the rectangular courtyard, which is flanked with porticoes separated by square piers along its north and south sides. The courtyard is bordered by a room flanking the entrance iwan on the north and south and communicating with it via a doorway topped with a lintel. Both of these rooms are rectangular and covered with a pointed barrel vault; the southern one served originally as the masjid as inferred from the mihrab niche.

The covered section in the west is arranged into three longitudinal aisles separated by two rows of five square piers and covered with a pointed barrel vault; the central aisle is wider and taller.

The inn was built with fine cut and roughly worked stones incorporating spoliated ancient materials.

The poorly preserved inscription on the portal to the covered section refers to the monument as a ribat and states that it was built in 1207 during the second reign of Sultan Giyath al-Din Kay Husraw I.