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Would you like to attend class in a school with a ceiling that opens to the sky? The Tokat and Niksar Yağıbasan Medresesi are exactly such fascinating places. In these very old schools, students learned important knowledge while gazing at the stars through an opening in the center of the ceiling.One of Anatolia’s First UniversitiesMedreses were in fact similar to today’s universities. The Yağıbasan Medresesi is especially significant as one of the first schools established by the Turks in Anatol

Bed-i Besmele is a religious and social ceremony held in the Ottoman educational tradition to mark a child’s entry into the neighborhood school. During the ceremony, hymns were recited and the congregation would collectively say “âmin”; for this reason, it was also known among the people as Âmin Alayı. This ritual symbolizes the child’s first lesson beginning with the basmala and serves as a rite of passage emphasizing the sanctity of education. In Ottoman society, Bed-i Besmele, which integrate