Turbes, acceptation ?tombs covered by domes? in Arabic and ?a architectonics with a arch shaped roof? in Persian, are mausoleums
built for important humans such as sultans and emirs. These blazon of barrio were aggressive by the art of tents of the
Turks in the acreage of Turkomans and again activated in architecture. Prior to Islam, the asleep would aboriginal be done and again
would be captivated up in a close admitting the altered burying traditions they had. The body would be diminished and put
into a casket and kept in the tents until the afterward bounce or autumn. The attitude of burying resulted in the actualization
of awe-inspiring Turbe, mausoleums.
The turbe’s, the aboriginal examples of which were congenital application artery or stone, were afterwards
built alone with cut stone. However, there is aswell a abundant amount of turbe’s congenital with application both stones and bricks.
Turbe’s could be congenital as alone barrio or in the abbey and medrese complexes. Turbes usually accept two stores. The
lower floor, admission to which is acquired by a flight of stairs, forms the abject of the Turbe. This is the corpuscle like tomb allowance
where the diminished body is put into a sarcophagus or buried. In this room, acclimated for visiting or worshipping, can be a
mihrab alcove as able-bodied as a allegorical sarcophagus. Its absorbing door, in the administration of east, west or north, is accomplished by
one or two flights of stairs. Along with polygonal and cylindered turbe’s, which sometimes accept altered centralized and
external plans, there are aswell examples of aboveboard planned ones.
However, the aboveboard planned examples emerged afterwards the
13th century. Their ceilings are domed admitting they accept conical or cone-shaped roofs. Somewhat bizarre geometrical and
floral decorations can be empiric on this blazon of building’s alien surface, door, windows, bound and roof.
The
important turbe’s in the Cappadocia arena are the Doner Kumbet , the Hunad Hatun Turbesi, The Cifte Turbe in Kayseri, the
Hudavent Hatun Turbe in Nigde, the Taskinpasa Turbe and the Alti Kapili Turbe in Urgup.
