Our faculty was opened on November 24, 1962 as a 4-year teacher training institution affiliated to the Ministry of National Education under the name of Higher Islamic Institute and gave its first graduates in 1966. On July 20, 1982, it was affiliated to Selçuk University and became one of the Faculties of Theology. Our faculty still continues its education in its building on Meram Yeni Yol in Konya city center.