Kuršumli - an (The Lead Caravanserai)
| On the left bank of the river Vardar, in the former hardware bazaar of the Lower Town, besides the complex of Museums of Macedonia is located Kuršumli An (the Lead Caravanserai). We could not precisely determine the time of its origination, but most of the experts are of an opinion that the Turks have built this Inn on the foundations of an older medieval building, in the 16th century. |
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Its appearance is identical to those of the caravan sarais that were built in the Islamic urban centers of these times. Kuršumli An is an impressive building with decorated walls and numerous small domes of a pyramidal shape. Its roof was covered by lead, and this is how its name originated (kuršum in Turkish language means lead). |
| Kuršumli - an,
16th century |
| The space of the inn is divided into two squares, connected with a porch. In the middle there is a garden. The inn consists of a ground floor and an upper floor. The rooms in the basement were used for accommodation of the cattle, and the rooms on the upper floor for rest and accommodation of the guests. Besides the building there were two smaller objects; one of them was sacred - Kazandziler mosque, built later (around the 17th century), and the other profane - the Gulciler Hamam (bath), work of Muslidin Hodza in the 15th century, that was preserved as such up until the big Skopje fire in the 1689 when it was destroyed. |
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D. Kareva
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