Guide
Two village rooms stand 40 to 50 metres apart at the centre of Sarıçiçek, close to each other in size, and their decoration is still as it was made. Buildings surround them on all sides; both are entered from the west, and a small simple porch was added in front of each later. Their plans are rectangles close to square. The roofs were flat earth originally and are now sheet metal over a pitched timber frame, put there to stop water seeping into the rooms. What holds the attention inside is the fitted work: the divans, the ceilings, the cupboards, the hearth and the coffee alcove.
The first, known as the master's room, lies about 20 metres south-east of the mosque. It measures 7.08 by 8.10 metres on the outside and 5.10 by 4.35 within. The walls are rubble stone throughout, with more regular stone worked into the corners. The basement below was a stable and is now a sitting room. A dwelling adjoins it on the east and a concrete fountain stands to the south-east.
A plain door on the west opens into a rectangular entrance, and a door on the right of that into the room itself. Facing the small entrance door are a little coffee alcove and the seating. Entrance and alcove are divided from one another by four handsome wooden arches resting on five wooden columns — two against the wall, three in the middle. Three windows on the south wall light the room: two wide and tall, the third small and narrow.
The second, known as the apprentice's room, is at the south of the village, and its position makes it visible from a distance: the slope of the ground puts its southern side on high stone foundations. Unlike the first room it is not raised over a basement; its floor rests on packed earth. Its south wall likewise carries three windows, the second with a round arched tympanum continuing the line of the straight lintel above it, the third smaller and narrower in a plain stone frame. All are splayed inward to take in as much daylight as possible.
