The Gök Medrese in Sivas, a thirteenth-century madrasah, was completed in 1271. Sahip Ata Fahrettin Ali, a vizier who became the de facto ruler of the Seljuk Sultanate of Rûm, was its patron. An architect known as Kaloyan, from Konya, built it. The name is Byzantine Greek, and the article gives his origin as possibly Armenian or Cappadocian Greek. It was originally called Sahibiye, and the name Gök, meaning blue, comes from its sky-blue tiles.
The style is Seljuk. The facade is about 103 feet (31.25 meters) wide, the courtyard measures about 80 by 47 feet (24.25 by 14.4 meters) and two minarets about 82 feet (25 meters) tall flank the portal. Muqarnas decorate the portal.
It originally had two stories, a hamam and a soup kitchen, but only the thirteen rooms of the lower floor survive. It was restored in 1823 and used until 1926.
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