Yunus Emre Complex and Mausoleum
Yunus Emre Museum in Mihalıçcık District of Eskişehir was opened to visitors by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism in 1974. The tomb of Yunus Emre, who was in Eskişehir in the XIIIth century, was destroyed during the Greek occupation and a new tomb was built in 1949 by moving it behind a fountain. This tomb was built in the style of the Seljuk architecture of the XIIIth century, and the rumi and palmette decorated tomb sarcophagus was connected to each other with arches and placed in the center of the open monumental tomb with eight columns.
A cultural house, a mosque and a fountain were added to the site of this mausoleum in 1982. A statue of Yunus Emre was also placed here. In the museum established in the Culture House, books introducing Yunus Emre and plates containing Yunus Emre's quatrains were exhibited. There are also architectural pieces left over from Yunus Emre's first grave and some ethnographic artifacts.
