Özet:

The schools where basic education is given in Islamic countries were called “Küttab” in the Abbasid Period, “sibyan school” in the Karakhanids, Seljuks and the Ottoman Period. In the Ottoman Period, these schools were also called by names such as “dârütta‘lîm, dârülilm, muallimhâne, mahalle mektebi, taş mektep, mahalle mektebi, mekteb-i ibtidâiyye”. The first school was built in Bursa in the Ottoman Empire, and then a large number of different examples of primary schools were built. Due to the changes in the education system, the number of sibyan schools decreased towards the end of the Ottoman Empire, and after the "Tevhid-i Tedrisat Law", which came into force in 1924, they lost their function. In this study, the architectural features of the “Stone School” in Niksar district, Tokat province, which is one of the examples in the province, were examined and evaluated in terms of material-technique and decoration features. The rectangular building in the east-west direction, the construction date of which is not known for certain, consists of two adjacent rooms in the north and the portico section in the south of these rooms. Stone School is the only school in Niksar that has survived to the present day, carries all the features of sibyan schools and has preserved these features to the present day, which is important in terms of urban memory.