Karatay Han

On the Kayseri-old Malatya road, Bünyan district Elbaşı subdistrict is in Karadayı village. According to the inscriptions, entrance section I. Alâeddin Keykubad, courtyard section II. It was completed in the period of Giyâseddin Keyhusrev in 638 (1240-41). According to historians of the Anatolian Seljuk period and his foundation that reached today, the founder of the inn is Celâleddin Karatay.

Karatay Inn, XIII. Sultan Inn, which took its classical shape in the first quarter of the century, was built according to the plan scheme. It consists of a large section with a courtyard with various spaces around it and a smaller closed section behind it. The walls and covering system of the inn have a smooth cut stone coating. Body walls are supported by eighteen towers, six of which are at the corners. There are bundle braided support towers and star-shaped corner towers on the entrance facade, and triangle towers with octagonal, quadrangular and round sections on the other facades.