This is the Çifte Minareli Medrese, built in the late thirteenth century as a theological college. Over the centuries, the building transitioned from a centre of religious learning to a gun foundry in the seventeenth century and an arsenal during the nineteenth century Russo-Turkish Wars. Following a comprehensive restoration completed in 2016, the madrasa now functions as a free museum.
The interior of the building, which the Russians have attacked on more than one occasion and some of the treasures of the structure remain in Russian museums to this day.
The grand arch that is the entrance.
There are nineteen of these small rooms on the ground floor, they would have been used as student accommodation or for classrooms. They are now museum rooms and there might now be a few posts about some of the exhibits that I thought were particularly interesting.