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12-Oct-2018 Dick Osseman

Bursa Muradiye complex Muradiye Mosque october 2018 8040.jpg

The Muradiye mosque was started by Murat II in 1425, and completed a year later. The minaret closest to you is old, the other has been added later. Other additions and changes have occurred, partly because a fire in the 18th century that destroyed the mimbar.

The ground plan of this mosque is similar to that of the Orhan Camii (rebuilt in 1417): Bursa-type (a reverse-T congregation hall), with a 31 m wide porch on the north side, and two smaller rooms in the north corners of the building, on both sides of the vestibule. These rooms were used as a ‘misafirhane’ (guest house). The Muradiye Mosque is slightly bigger than the mosque of Orhan, whose porch is 25½ m wide.

The T-form ground plan of the congregation hall of early-Ottoman mosques (the so-called ‘Bursa-type’ mosques) is derived from the late-Seljuk medrese-with-covered-courtyard, with three large iwans (half-open rooms) opening upon a central space. In this mosque too, these four rooms are still distinct from each other: their floors are not on the same level.
As the first Ottoman rulers (at least up to their conquest of Constantinople) had strong ties with various Sufi Orders, it is clear that the Bursa-type mosques were designed as multi-functional buildings to meet the needs of these brotherhoods: a place to worship (the ‘mihrab’-room), but also to teach and debate (the ‘iwan’-rooms on the left and right) and even to stay overnight.

Correspondent: J.M.Criel, Antwerpen.
Sources: ‘Vakıf Abideler ve eski Eserler III’ - Vakıflar Genel Müdürlüğü, Ankara 1983
‘Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire’ - Gábor Ágoston & ‎Bruce Alan Masters, 2009
& ‘Islamic Architecture: Ottoman Turkey’ (Godfrey Goodwin) – London 1977

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