The Ince Minareli Medrese, today the Museum of Seljuk Period Stone and Wood carving was built in 1260s as a Muslim theological seminary by the Seljuk Grand Vizier Sahip-Ata Fahreddin. The Museum is one of the most interesting places to visit in Konya for its stunning structure and its collections.

Its magnificent stone portal finely carved with Seljuck decoration is the most remarkable of its structure. In the courtyard of the museum, fine examples of gravestones, inscription and building stones belonging to the Seljuk and Karamanogullari times are displayed.

The highlights of the museum includes carvings in bas-reliefs depicting a two-headed eagle, a winged angel, a dragon, a harpy, a fish, an elephant and rhinoceros, lions and people in marble panels.

The Ince Minare Medrese opens its doors from Monday to Sunday from 09:00 - 12:00 and 13:00 - 17:00.

The Alaettin Mosque (Alaettin Camii), located in the Alaettin Tepesi hill (Aladdin's Hill) in the city center is the oldest mosque of Konya dating back to the 13th century and one of the best examples of Seljuck architecture in Turkey.

The mosque was constructed with marble columns belonging to the Roman and Byzantine periods. In its courtyard there are tombs of many Seljuk sultans including the tomb of Alaettin Keykubad I, the Seljuck Sultan of Rum who built the mosque.

Catalhoyuk is an ancient settlement from the Neolithic period located in the borders of Konya in the Çumra District discovered in 1950s. Remains dating from 5500BC were found in the excavations carried out between 1961 and 1965 by J. Mellaart, evidencing that this place was one of the first human settlements in the earth.

The settlement is famous for due to the large extension and occupation, and for its frescoes in the walls inside the houses. During the excavations many artifacs of the daily life and painting walls were discovered, and among archeological objects there is a figure of the mother-gooddess and obsidian and clay objects.

The settlement consist basically of mud-brick houses, something characteristics of the buildings is that all of them are separate without common walls and the absence of defined streets. Inside the houses it could be appreciated the painting walls with red colors, there are small niches and ovens carved inside. The houses consist of a single room and a warehouse, with plastered walls. Something peculiar is that the houses does not have doors to the outside, its inhabitant used to enter by a hole in the roof helped with a leader.

The mausoleum includes a semahane and a mosque, both in the same structure and divided by archways blocked by iron grills and wooden partitions. In the semahane takes place the annual whirling ceremony or sema, there are clothes and caps of Mevlana, also of his son and his friend Shams al-Tabriz displayed in addition to medieval prayer rugs and Sufi musical objects. The mosque contains an exhibition with prayer rugs and manuscripts.

Built in 1251 by the Seljuk Emir Celaleddin Karatay, the Karatay Medrese is a masterpiece of the Medieval Turkish art. In 1955 the Karatay Medrese turned into the Ceramic Museum and boasts a beautiful portal made of sky and white marble.

The museum includes rich collections of wall tiles and porcelain dishes from the Seljuk, Beylik and Ottoman periods. Among the tiles displayed in the Medrese there are collections of mosaic wall tiles, carved, and relief tiles with motifs and inscriptions, as well as glazed tiles with figures and designs found in the excavations of the Seljuck Palace situated on the northern slope of Aleaddin Hill.