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       The last member of the Djandarli family who linked his name with the   city was Ibrahim (1428/9-1499), great-grandson of the family's founder.   The rebuilding of the covered market of precious goods, in other words   bedesten or bezesten, did not only promote but also consolidated the   city's vibrant economy (pl.1 no 3).The exterior walls of the building   form its solid rectangular shape . Two massive pillars  divide the   interior into six sections each covered with hemispherical dome.   Supported by four pendentives each dome rest on four arches. The   application of this basic architectural principal results into   impressive -in terms of morphology- conception of four pairs of arches   that spring out of each pillar. The roof, once covered by lead sheets,   circumscribed the structure of the monument's vaults -nowadays hidden   under thick layers of insulating material: the small shields which roof   the pillars and the semi-cylindrical vaults cover also the pairs of   arches protruded next to the octagon drums of the domes.
        The four doors, one on each side, are accentuated by stone frames and   crowned by shallow arches . At the width of this doors the galleries   that once surrounded the monument were interrupted. They also   accommodated far more shops than the monument's interior; among which   were the work shops of silk textiles and gold caps manufacturers. The   galleries destroyed in 1913, were never replaced but left the traces of   their original height where a significant recess is formed on the   surface of the external walls of the building. This way their masonry,   from the recess and above until the dentil cornice, is accomplished from   careless to highly.
             The dim light provided by the eight small arched and barred windows   (fig.14) has a unique effect on the interior's decoration confined to   accentuate the architectural structure: The pendentives formed on   prismatic shapes and the bases of the domes on dentil friezes. Right and   inverted palmettes, embossed to the mortar that plaster the interior,   set off the cornices of the pillars.
           For the existence of the bedesten, the city owes to Ibrahim pasha as   well as to the professor of Byzantine Archaeology and member of the   National Academy A. O. Orlandos. In 1938 A. O. Orlandos averted the   demolition of the monument which nowadays houses the Archaeological   Museum.              |