Gazi Isa Bey Medres

A record of the existence of the Isa-bey's medres  was found in 1469 in the certification of his waqf. It states that Isa-bey built a medres  with ten departments, and a khanqah near it. He consecrated his large estate: the Chifte Hammam with the shops near it; the nineteen shops in front of the hammam connected to his father Ishak-bey’s bedesten, and the Kapan Lodging with the shops around it, in order to support the school. Moreover, Isa-bey consecrated all his books. It was a rich fund of manuscripts on various subjects. The book fund consisted of 230 diverse manuscripts, making this medres  one of the richest libraries on the Balkans. For the most part, these books had religious nature, however some of the books were on subjects sucha s astronomy, medicine, philosophy, mathematics, and so on.