Around Beyazit and Sehzadebas - Strolling Through Istanbul: The Classic Guide to the City - page 197

Kuyucu Murat Paşa, Grand Vezir in the reign of Ahmet I. Murat Paşa
received his nickname kuyucu, or the pit-digger, from his favourite
occupation of supervising the digging of trenches for the mass burials
of the rebels he had slaughtered. he apex of the triangle is formed
by the columned sebil, with simple classical lines. Facing the street
is an arcade of shops in the middle of which a doorway leads to the
courtyard of the medrese. Entering, we find the türbe of the founder
in the acute angle behind the sebil, and at the other end the dershane,
which, as so often, served also as a small mosque. This building has
been taken over and restored by Istanbul University; the courtyard
has been roofed in and used as a small museum, while the dershane
contains a library.
MEDRESE OF SEYYİT HASAN PAŞA
Continuing along and passing the new University building, we turn
right and soon come to another medrese complex, now the Istanbul
University Institute of Turkology. This is a baroque building founded
in 1745 by the Grand Vezir Seyyit Hasan Paşa, the same who built
the han we saw earlier. It is curiously irregular in design and raised on
a rather high platform so that on entering one mounts a flight of steps
to the courtyard, now roofed in and used as a library and reading-
room. In one corner is the dershane-mescit, which has become the
office of the Director of the Institute; in another is a room designed as
a primary school; this and the cells of the medrese are used for special
library collections or as offices. Outside in the street at the corner of
the buildings is a fine rococo sebil with a çeşme beside it.
After leaving the medrese we continue walking along the same
street, which soon veers left and ends in a flight of steps beside Beyazit's
hamam. We descend and find ourselves once more in the chaos of
Beyazit Square, back at the point where we began our stroll.