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Şadgeldi Paşa Tomb

This tomb has a name but no inscription. To understand where the name comes from, you need to look at the other traces the man who bore it left in the city.

14th century Iwan-type tomb Gökmedrese neighbourhood

The tomb is right next to the Kadılar Tomb. The two stand a few steps apart in the Gökmedrese neighbourhood.

This closeness is no accident: two examples of the same age and the same plan type stand side by side.

📜 What do the documents say?

The tomb is in the Gökmedrese neighbourhood, right next to the Kadılar Tomb.¹ Architecturally it is thought to belong to the 14th century — the Ilkhanid or Eretnid period. It is one of the rectangular, iwan-type tombs.^1, 2

When it was built is not certain. The book says so plainly: there is no certain information about the tomb's date of construction. The general view is that it may have been built for Şadgeldi Paşa, who served as emir in Amasya in the Eretnid period, on his death in 1382.^1, 2

So the name here rests not on an inscription but on a consensus. The page gives it as such.

There is a second view too — and it pushes the date back by nearly seventy years. The Site Management Plan records that some researchers start from the earliest dated cenotaph in the tomb: the cenotaph of Sitti Hatun, dated 1314–15. According to this view, the tomb may have been built at that date.³

The tomb is an iwan tomb, rectangular in plan and running north–south, and it contains five cenotaphs in all.³ The building lies to the south-west of the Kadılar Tomb and to the south-east of the Halifet Gazi Tomb.³

Şadgeldi Paşa's traces in the city

The man whose name this tomb bears was an emir who left his mark on Amasya. On this site you can visit three separate traces of him — each in a different corner of the city.

The mosque he built

Saraçhane Mosque

Şadgeldi Paşa had it built in 1372. Its first name was his own; later the name changed because of the saddlers (saraç) around it.¹

His grandson's daughter

Halkalı Evliya Tomb

Şahruz Hatun, who lies there, was the daughter of Serasker Burak Bey, one of Şadgeldi Paşa's grandsons.¹

Its neighbour

Kadılar Tomb

Right next door. The same period, the same plan type — the two tombs should be read together.¹

What does an emir leave behind in a city? For Şadgeldi Paşa the answer is concrete: a mosque, a tomb and a lineage. All three are still there; all three are far apart. Seeing the same name in three different places as you walk round Amasya shows what kind of family memory the city carries.

While you are there, look for

Look for an inscription, and notice that you cannot find one. That gap tells you why this tomb's name is a “consensus” and not a “certainty”.¹
Look at the iwan. In tombs of this type one façade is open; it is not a closed room but rather a niche opening to the outside.^1, 2 The Kadılar Tomb next door is of the same type; compare the two.
Pace out the distance between the two tombs. A few steps. Two buildings of the same age, in the same street.¹
Then go to the Saraçhane Mosque. The man whose name this tomb bears had it built in 1372.¹

Key facts

Date: 14th century — Ilkhanid or Eretnid period^1, 2
Built for: According to the general view, Şadgeldi Paşa (d. 1382) — not certain^1, 2
Plan: Rectangular, iwan type^1, 2
Inscription: None¹
Where: Gökmedrese neighbourhood, next to the Kadılar Tomb¹
Location: 40.6492114, 35.8231393 — verified from an external source
In the book: Kültürel Miras Boyutuyla Amasya, p. 51

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Sources

Kültürel Miras Boyutuyla Amasya (Amasya: Amasya Üniversitesi, BAP Projesi SEB-BAP25-0233, 2026), 42, 48, 51. — p. 51: the tomb's location, its dating and its connection with Şadgeldi Paşa. p. 42: the Saraçhane Mosque, built by Şadgeldi Paşa in 1372. p. 48: the record that Şahruz Hatun, who lies in the Halkalı Evliya Tomb, was the daughter of Serasker Burak Bey, one of Şadgeldi Paşa's grandsons.
Zeynep Küpra Ketil, Amasya Türbeleri (Konya: Selçuk Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, Yüksek Lisans Tezi, 2019), 31. — The dating of the tomb to the 14th century and its iwan-type plan.
Amasya Harşena Dağı ve Pontus Kral Kaya Mezarları Alan Yönetim Planı ve UNESCO Dünya Mirası Başvuru Dosyası (Amasya: Amasya Belediyesi, 2022), 77. — “2.3.2.4. Bağlantı Noktası 4”: the tomb's position relative to the Kadılar and Halifet Gazi tombs, the absence of an inscription, the second dating view based on Sitti Hatun's cenotaph of 1314-15, and the five cenotaphs inside.

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