Underground City Found in Sinan
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Zaman 18 April, 2004 During restoration of the architect Sinan's house in the town of Kayseri, a Central Anatolian city in Agirnas, an underground city was found.
Approximately 4000 square meters of the city, the age of which cannot be estimated, have been excavated so far. Nuvit Bayar, the Project Director of Guntas, the company responsible for the restoration, says, "We plan to finish this delicate job, which has been going on for two years, by the end of this month."
Saying that when looked at from outside, Sinan's house looked like a two-story building, Bayar said they had found a whole new world during restoration. The architect Bayar summarized the state of the house in Agirnas of Melikgazi County:
"We thought that there might be storage space for food or a stable beneath the house. But had no idea that it was part of an underground city. The underground city that we found by accident during restoration begins a few meters under the ground and has two levels. There are parts resembling underground remains of settlements in Cappadocia. Wonderful structures emerged everywhere, like an iron workshop and a loft. We know that there are small prayer sites but we could not find them. We guess the underground city dates back to the 1600s. But archeological research should be conducted."
Agirnas Mayor Mehmet Osmanbasoglu has claimed that the underground city could be linked with the neighboring towns of Turan, Gesi and Zincidere. "The light installations and the internal furnishings of Sinan's house will be restored by the lowest bidder, "said Osmanbasoglu, adding: "The Ministry of Culture and Tourism has spent TL 550 billion (app. $420,000) for the restoration. We have also benefited from the great assistance of the Kayseri Governorship. Thanks to these contributions, history of our town will be brought back to life."
Osmanbasoglu said that structures in adjacent rooms could not be excavated, since they were choked with soil.
"We predict that these [rooms] will also have two levels when they are opened. We think that the underground city was active in the Roman, Byzantine and Seljuk eras and other stone buildings there were built in the Ottoman and Republican periods."
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