This building is private property today and is lived in as a house, so it is not a place to go inside. It stands in the centre of Çemisgezek.
The medrese's inscription, written by Hacı Hayri of Harput, says that His Majesty Sultan Hamid founded this medrese for the seeker of knowledge, that his servant Hayri wrote the date in jewels, and that this house of teaching should be a centre of everlasting bounty. It served as a medrese for many years; after the medreses were abolished it was used for a time in the republican period as a courthouse, and was later sold to private owners.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Tunceli as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from -1.8 °C in January to 27.1 °C in July; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June and September; rainfall is heaviest in December (133 mm) and lightest in August (5 mm). Long-term means for 1960-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
