The Mosque Of Murad I Photo: The Mosque Of Murad I

From 1365 to 1385 in Bursa by order of Sultan Murad I, was built by the Imperial complex that includes a mosque with a madrassa and savie dervishes, imaret, the fountain-sebile, tombs, Hamam and Mektebi (school of learning Quran for boys). For works on the construction of the Sultan allocated their prisoners. The architect is unknown, but it is believed that he was captured by the Sultan's soldiers and was Italian.

The visit begins with a walk around the yard with cypress trees and a beautiful fountain. A small path leads to the mosque with columns and four Windows. The base of the structure has an inverted T-shaped. In the construction of buildings used brick and plate-like multiple columns with carved capitals. Through the richly decorated door, the visitor enters the delightful inner hall, whose ceiling is lined with a very rare and beautiful tile. The interior of the mosque is decorated with an intricate Arabic inscriptions and the Golden altar. Sometimes gilding was damaged as time and external precipitation. Interesting architecture and original details of the building (the gallery facade and second floor window openings) are striking in their style and give the mosque a large resemblance to the Palace. A later addition to the mosque is the only minaret, located in the Northwest corner of the building. It is very similar to a small tower known Italian Palazzo.

Despite the fact that the mosque is a very spacious room for prayer, there were provided rooms for students. Sixteen rooms of the second floor, along the external walls of the building, was a madrassa and had the yield on the U-shaped inner balcony from which to explore the Central hall of the first floor.

In the garden complex are ten convex polygonal tombs belonging to the Sultan and members of his family. The tomb was situated opposite the mosque was built after the death in 1389, Murad I by order of his son Sultan Bayezid I.

For lighting in the mosque of Murad I used to use oil lamps and this has led to the fire. The building has recently been restored. Interesting is the fact that almost all famous thinkers of Bursa studied at the madrasah, located on the second floor of the mosque.

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