The mosque of Sultan Bayezid II Photo: the Mosque of Sultan Bayezid II

Sultans of the Ottoman Empire has always cared about the decoration of the original buildings of their possessions and paid great attention to the creation of magnificent mosques throughout the Caliphate. Traveling through the territory of their country, they were ordered to build a building on the occasion of his visit. Most of these were mosques, madrasahs or tekkie (premises for clergy). In addition, the sultans encouraged their wealthy citizens to invest in the construction of religious and charitable institutions. Due to this construction boom in the Empire was even introduced a special post - the chief architect of the Sultan. Thus, it is believed that the mosque of Bayezid II built the architect Hayreddin. But, given the lack of any historical documents, some historians believe the Creator of this magnificent collie Yakup Shah bin Sultan Shah.

Construction of collie and the Mosque of Sultan Bayezid II was beginning in the spring of the year 1484, when the Governor stopped in Edirne before the military campaign in Moldavia. By his order the complex was erected on the right Bank of the Tundzha river and included a guest house, a soup kitchen for the poor, a hospital, madrassa, a Hamam, a mill and a bridge over the river. Square cullie more than 22 thousand square meters. Most of this construction is similar to the "Muslim monastery", but the complex was designed and also for the treatment of the mentally ill, drug development, training of medical personnel.

From an architectural point of view, the most interesting building is a mosque with two minarets. Their height is 38 meters and a diameter approximately equal to three meters. The mosque is decorated with one large dome (diameter 20, 55 m), based on dvadtsatidnevnyy drum area of about 500 square meters. In addition, the dome rests on four massive columns with stalactite vertices. The total number of domes on all the buildings Kylie exceeds one hundred. Pool for ablutions outside the premises of the courtyard, the perimeter of which is covered with small domes a gallery. It should be noted that the architects of those times tried to remove trees from construction sites, so in the courtyard of the mosque of Bayezid II had left a few cypress trees that adorn the entire ensemble.

The mosque has an unusual layout. At the entrance to her room on the right and left open two wings, forming a kind of vestibule with arched arcades. Long gallery of the mosque resembles a medieval monastic refectories. Dome Kylie covered with lead plates, and the spire erected Golden Crescent. Despite the fact that the mosque is among the burial, the tomb (with Turkish. - "tomb") is behind the mosque.

Located on the territory of Kylie Bayezid II hospital was very popular and served patients for almost four centuries, until the Russo-Turkish war. Here he worked as General practitioners and narrowly focused specialists: ophthalmologists, surgeons and pharmacists. In the hospital it was also a special unit for the mentally ill — Tamarana (which means "mental hospital"). In the treatment of these sufferers had used unusual in those days methods: we used national music, the melodious sound of water, aromatherapy. In 1984 the buildings of the hospital were transferred to the Trakia University and after repair they were used for the learning process. In Tamarana in 1997 the Museum was opened health. Its interesting display allows you to present the level of development of medicine in the Ottoman Empire.

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