Caravansary

p.114 "So the whole caravansary had fallen in like a card house at the disapproval in her eyes."

Definition: an inn, usually with a large courtyard, for the
overnight accommodation of caravans

(noun) caravansaries

The caravansary is usually constructed outside the walls of a town or village.

There are 4 caravansaries between Tehran and Semnan, built in Safavid era