Uysal M.2020-03-262020-03-2620101300-3984https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12395/25478Konya, located on important trade routes throughout history, has been an important trading city during Seljuk reign and continued to be so during the Ottoman reign as well. The bazaar was dispersed over a vast area in the city and trade spaces of classical Turkish pattern were observed. Traditional Konya Bazaar is located almost over the same lot during Seljuk and Ottoman reigns and the Turkish Republic period. The bedesten and hans which determined the spatial organisation of Konya Bazaar and the long market street over which the development of the marketplace was based have been demolished during the rearrangement process that took place in late 19th and 20th centuries. However, Konya Bazaar retained its physical pattern until 1950s in view of street texture and spatial organisation. Especially after the 1980s a radical change started with the construction of multi-story trade buildings over the marketplace. Konya Bazaar embodied novel trade functions necessitated by the period and underwent a transformation in view of space and services offered. The individual applications on the bazaar have resulted in a corruption in the texture silhouette and a merger of the old texture with the new structures was not attained. However, it has been observed that Konya Bazaar preserves its physical, social and cultural attributes even today, although partially.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessKonya bazaarSpatial analysisSpatial structureArticle86149162Q2