Banaz Çeşmelerinin Uşak Çeşme Mimarisi İçerisindeki Yeri ve Korunma Durumları
Location and Protection Causes of Banaz Fountains in Uşak Fountain Architecture

Summary/Abstract: Fountains are the last point where water is found among the communities in the front row among the primary life sources of people with its functional characteristics. With this important situation, the social fabric they create around the fountains creates a dominant influence on their unquestionable value. The fountains were built in different geographies, with different architectural creations and with different plans and facade features, being preferred in every period. Our work contains the plan, architecture and decorative features of the twenty-eight fountains, dating from the last period of the Ottoman period according to the inscriptions and architectural details, located in the Banaz district of Uşak province. The aim is to document and publicize these structures which are primarily open to natural or human destruction. In this context, each one of the works determined has been shot, taken detailed measurements and drawings drawn and have been taken their GPS values. Fountains were introduced with plan and mass edifices, and their places in Uşak fountains were typologically discussed.

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