Introducing Bursa Province 4

Bursa Castle: Bursa Castle construction BC I. century is based. Today, two-mile length of the walls. is.

MOSQUES in Bursa, Bursa, Bursa MAUSOLEUMS complexes and

Which is an important center of religious tourism in Bursa Yildirim Mosque and Tomb, the Green Mosque and Tomb, the Emir Sultan Mosque and Tomb, Ulu Mosque (Cami Kebir), Muradiye Complex, Complex, and major mosques and mosque complexes Hüdavendigar.

Ulu Mosque (Center): in the years 1396-1400 by Yıldırım Bayezid, completely made of cut stone, very thick and high walls, 12 heavy four edged, with pendantives twenty-built as a dome.

The most classic example of a multi-domed mosques and monumental. Rich and roomy space with the greatest of all Turkish mosques size (318 m2) has. Rumi and palm leaves and the small tenon panels with intricate, geometric-pattern balustrade networks, and networked the crown and the inscription in the front of the pulpit is a masterpiece of transition from Seljuk style to Ottoman style.

According to the construction of the fountain with the rumor, some places should have been nationalized for construction of Ulu Mosque. Are located in the fountain with a Jewish woman. Women who did not want to give her land a night he sees all the people in the same direction koştuklarını. Where they went eagerly asks, "Heaven!" Is the answer. He also wanted to run but the land does not inhibit him for. This is the dream of Jewish women affected by the land next day, a fountain will be made with the condition.

Discontinue due to financial problems during the construction of the mosque, the Christian and Jewish communities have contributed to the material, upon which David's Star and Cross signs to indicate their gratitude Muslims carved in the stones used on the windows of the mosque.

Emir Sultan Mosque and Tomb (Center): a famous scholar of Emir Sultan, came to Bursa in 1391 and the Lightning Bayezit Hundi daughter Fatma Hatun married. Emir Sultan Mosque and tomb, by his wife II. Were made during the reign of Murat. Emir Sultan cemetery is on a hill next to the east of Bursa.

A shrine to the north has eight edges near to them. Fountain in a courtyard with a beautiful example of the type of single-domed mosque of Emir Sultan Mosque, the present shape, Sultan Ahmed III in 1804. Selim made on time.

Muradiye Complex (Central): Muradiye district is located within a large park. Sultan II. Constructed between 1424-1426 by Sultan Murat mosque, madrasa, soup kitchen, bath, and consists of 12 tombs.

Mosque Ottoman architecture, which is used widely during the first side (with zaviye), mosques are of type. The mihrab and the pulpit 18 is-century Baroque style. The entrance gate is the most beautiful samples of wood work. Muradiye Kulliye II. There are 12 pieces of tombs built in the name of Murat and his family.

Orhan Mosque and Complex (Central): 1339-1340, built by Orhan Bey in the complex, mosque, madrasa, soup kitchen, school, hamam and inn (Emir Han) structures. East of Ulu Mosque is the earliest examples of Ottoman complexes.

Orhan mosque in Bursa are the most important structures of early Ottoman period. Twin arches at both sides are important characteristics of the structure. Three rows of brick, with a well made of stone and brick work on its external surface is extremely interesting.

Hüdavendigar Mosque and Complex (Central): 1366-1385 de Sultan Murat (Hüdavendigar) a mosque, theology school, charitable establishment, tomb and hamam consists Çekirge district.

Unique in Ottoman architecture, the two-story mosque in the ground floor of the building, the upper storeys of the theology school. The flashy exterior appearance of a palace with minarets is not clear that the architect of the building. And front-, mid-columned porches of the upper floor with double-pointed arches opened a two-story facade, becoming a landscape reminding the Venetian palaces. Below the dome, which is open mid-fountain, creates a harmonious atmosphere with gentle splashes.