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Adile Baysal Culture House and Seydişehir City Museum

The culture and art house, which reflects the traditional architecture of Seydişehir, serves to transfer the historical and cultural heritages to future generations and to introduce the traditional culture to the guests.

Adile Baysal Memorial Corner

Adile Baysal was born in Beyşehir in 1901 as the daughter of a judge. Adile Hanım, who married Mehmet Baysal, wanted to go out to her own house after a while and started looking for a house in Seydişehir. In those days, he bought this house, nicknamed the Yellow Inspector (the father of Tarık Gürcan, the first announcer of Istanbul Radio), bought this house, which he had diligently built but put up for sale because he was assigned to another place, and spent his life in this house until he passed away. Mehmet and Adile Baysal had two daughters and two sons. Mehmet Bey, who was engaged in farming and trade, had a halva shop in the bazaar and an animal farm in Kisecik. Mehmet Bey, who had agricultural tools such as combines and tractors, went out of the province to harvest with his sons at harvest time. Adile Hanım took the orphaned girls with her in Seydişehir, raised them to help with the housework. She raised and married three girls named Şerif, Hatice and Dürdane during her lifetime. Adile Hanım, a woman whose word was listened to in the neighborhood, helped the girls who had come to the wedding dress age in the engagement and wedding preparations, allowed them to use their own clothes, did their hair and make-up.

Adile Baysal Culture and Art House Museum Building Historical and Architectural Features

The building is located in Konya province, Seydişehir district, Sofhane Neighborhood. The building was built between 1915-1920 and was used as a residence. It was renovated in the 1970s and added to the building and continued to be used as a residence. Wooden flooring on a masonry rubble stone wall was used in the construction of the structure, which was made in the plan of a Turkish house with an interior sofa, which was followed in the Ottoman residential architecture. Wooden beams were laid between the masonry walls. The outer walls were formed by filling small stones called helik between the double-skinned stone wall and pouring mud plaster on it. The building consists of 3 rooms and an iwan around the middle sofa on the ground, and a middle sofa, 3 rooms and an iwan on the upper floor. The upper floor protrudes outward with a bay window in the west and east directions. It is registered as Grup Yapı. The building was purchased by Seydişehir Municipality and restored in 2012, and was put into service as Adile Baysal Culture and Art House. In 2022, it took the title of museum and started to serve as Seydişehir City Museum.