This morning we visited a museum that was a complex of various buildings built in 1484 and founded by Sultan Bayezid II.

It was the Sultans job to provide justice, through security, and to provide for the less fortunate. When you build a mosque you build a complex for the poor, soup kitchen, mental hospital, regular hospital, medresseh (school), library, pharmacy, guesthouse, … This makes the public love you and it also creates cohesion among different people’s. It was a very multi-cultural empire and they worked hard to keep everyone happy.

The hospital was fascinating. They used music and water ( from the sound of fountains) therapy to help relax people, especially those with mental problems.They also had knowledge of medicines and performed surgery. This was a teaching hospital as well.