Bozok Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi

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The house is a multifunctional structure that meets basic living needs such as sheltering the family, which forms the core of the society, as well as different needs such as educating family members, and provides protection against all kinds of dangers from outside. Throughout history, people have met these needs in various ways. Sometimes they lived in places they created by combining tree branches, sometimes in caves, sometimes in tents, and sometimes in huts. Traditional Turkish houses are structures built with the cultural values of the Turkish people and reflect these values in every part. The origin of Turkish houses dates back to the nomadic times of the Turks. In this context, we focused on the traditional Turkish houses and street texture in Yozgat, located on the Bozok Plateau within the crescent drawn by Kızılırmak, as the subject of our study. Our study consists of an introduction, two main headings and evaluation-conclusion parts. In the introduction, after explaining why human beings need shelter and what they have done to shelter throughout the historical process until today, a general definition of the concept of home is made. Then, information about the foundation and geographical features of the city of Yozgat is given. Under the first heading, in the light of the information in the introduction, the traditional Turkish house, the characteristics of the Turkish house, the elements that make up the Turkish house and the concept of street are emphasized. Under the second heading, we specialize the subject further and take Turkish architecture into consideration; the traditional Yozgat Turkish house; The street texture, the elements that make up this texture, the names given to streets, avenues and neighbourhoods, the building materials of the houses, the layouts, other elements on the street and the extant states of some buildings are discussed in detail with visuals. At this stage, the buildings were first limited and examined in two groups: those that are still standing today and those that have not survived to the present day. Since the houses that have survived to the present day were abandoned, at this point, interviews were held with the museum directorate and people living in Yozgat, who remembered the old ones well or could not remember them and referred them to others. While studying the neighbourhoods, the focus was on the neighbourhoods whose names are mentioned in the archive documents rather than all the neighbourhoods of Yozgat. Finally, our article concluded with the title of evaluation and conclusion. In this study; In order to contribute to the detection and preservation of the material cultural heritage in Yozgat, the priority is to identify and document the locations, building plans, structural features and materials used in the construction of the Yozgat houses that have survived to the present day, as well as to identify the original buildings of the Yozgat houses that have been abandoned and in ruins for various reasons, based on visual archive records. revealing their structures; The aim is to identify those that have not survived to the present day through visual archive records.