# Muradiye Complex > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Muradiye_Complex > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Muradiye_Complex.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muradiye_Complex > Source revision: 1346111428 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Mausoleums of Ottoman royalty This article needs more citations. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Muradiye Complex" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (May 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this message) Muradiye Complex Muradiye Külliyesi Religion Affiliation Islam Location Location Bursa, Turkey Location of the Muradiye Complex in Turkey. Coordinates 40°11′27″N 29°02′46″E / 40.190853°N 29.046144°E / 40.190853; 29.046144 Architecture Type Mosque Style Islamic, Ottoman architecture Completed 1426; 600 years ago (1426) Minaret 2 UNESCO World Heritage Site Part of Bursa and Cumalıkızık: the Birth of the Ottoman Empire Criteria Cultural: (i), (ii), (iv), (vi) Reference 1452-007 Inscription 2014 (38th Session) **The Muradiye Complex** ([Turkish](/source/Turkish_language): *Muradiye Külliyesi*) or the **Complex of Sultan [Murad II](/source/Murad_II)**, the [Ottoman sultan](/source/Ottoman_sultan) (reigned 1421–1451, with interruption 1444–46), is located in [Bursa](/source/Bursa), Turkey. It is part of the historic [UNESCO](/source/UNESCO) [World Heritage Site](/source/World_Heritage_Site).[1] ## History The mosque complex commissioned by Sultan Murad II in [Bursa](/source/Bursa) contains twelve tombs ([türbe](/source/T%C3%BCrbe)), most belonging to relatives of this sultan.[2] Construction of the complex began after the completion of the [Yeşil Mosque](/source/Ye%C5%9Fil_Mosque), which is in the eastern area of Bursa. A large earthquake in 1855 damaged much of the Muradiye complex, and restorations were completed in the late nineteenth century.[3] A further restoration project was completed in 2015.[4] Interior view. The large complex is composed of the Muradiye [Mosque](/source/Mosque), Muradiye [Madrasa](/source/Madrasa), Muradiye [Bath](/source/Public_bathing), Muradiye [Hospice](/source/Hospice), a fountain, epitaphs, and numerous tombs, among others: Sultan [Murad II](/source/Murad_II)'s tomb, [Şehzade Ahmed](/source/%C5%9Eehzade_Ahmed)'s tomb, [Cem Sultan](/source/Cem_Sultan)'s tomb,[5] [Şehzade Mustafa](/source/%C5%9Eehzade_Mustafa_(son_of_Mehmed_II))'s tomb, [Mahidevran Hatun](/source/Mahidevran_Hatun)'s tomb, [Gülşah Hatun](/source/G%C3%BCl%C5%9Fah_Hatun)'s tomb, [Hüma Hatun](/source/H%C3%BCma_Hatun)'s tomb, [Sittişah Hatun](/source/Sitti%C5%9Fah_Hatun)'s tomb, the Saraylilar's tomb, and [Şirin Hatun](/source/%C5%9Eirin_Hatun)'s tomb.[6] The [Mosque](/source/Mosque) was the first project in the complex, completed in 1426. The mosque is built in a simplified inverse T plan with a domed [portico](/source/Portico) in front, constructed of brick and with four major domes.[7] Hexagonal tiles in turquoise and dark blue decorate the interior. There are two [minarets](/source/Minaret), one that is old and one that is new due to collapse from the 19th century earthquake and was rebuilt in 1904. A fire damaged the mosque in the early 18th century, and so the mihrab was also rebuilt, in the [rococo](/source/Rococo) style. The [madrasa](/source/Madrasa) is located to the west of the mosque. It is composed of a central courtyard surrounded by student rooms and a classroom to the back, covered by a dome. The exterior is brick and stone. The madrasa itself does not have a construction inscription due to numerous restorations. The inscription on the mosque says the madrasa was also constructed in 1426 by Murad II.[8] Dark blue and turquoise tiles decorate the interior, while brick decorates the exterior entrance. Sources conflict on the date of construction for the tomb of [Murad II](/source/Murad_II), either before his death in 1451, or after commissioned by his son [Mehmed II](/source/Mehmed_II) in accordance with Murad II's will.[9] The building is constructed of brick and stone, in a square plan topped with a dome that is left open at the top. A vaulted gallery surrounds the dome, resting on [Byzantine](/source/Byzantine) capitals. A large impressive wooden canopy over the entrance is carved in relief and embellished in star patterns. An annex contains four additional tombs, identified as those of Aladdin Ali (whom the annex is named after, “Mausoleum of Alaaddin”), Şehzade Ahmet,[10] Orhan and Şehzade Hatun. The remaining eleven tombs belong to the rest of the sultan's family to the south of the mosque and the madrasa. They are decorated with polychrome glazed tiles mostly in blue, except for the tombs of [Şehzade Mustafa](/source/%C5%9Eehzade_Mustafa_(son_of_Mehmed_II)) and [Mahidevran Hatun](/source/Mahidevran_Hatun) which is decorated in painted Iznik tiles from the 16th century in the [polychrome](/source/Polychrome) technique. In the 1950s the madrasa became a tuberculosis clinic and it now houses a medical centre.[11] ## Gallery - Front of Cem Sultan tomb - Interior Cem Sultan tomb - Interior Cem Sultan tomb - Interior Cem Sultan tomb - Entrance to Gülşah Hatun tomb - Interior Gülşah Hatun tomb - Hüma Hatun tomb interior - Hüma Hatun tomb decoration - Mükrime Hatun tomb top side mihrab - Mükrime Hatun tomb interior - Mükrime Hatun tomb exterior - Entrance Murad II tomb - Muradiye Mosque exterior - Muradiye Mosque interior - Mausoleum Sultan Alaaddin c.s. at Murad II tomb - The grave of Murad II - Şehzade Mahmud tomb interior - Şehzade Mahmud tomb exterior - Saraylar Tomb view - Şehzade Ahmed tomb exterior - Şehzade Ahmed tomb interior (detail of decoratrion above mihrab) - Şehzade Ahmed tomb interior - Şehzade Mahmud tomb decoration - Şehzade Mustafa tomb Exterior - Şehzade Mustafa tomb decoration - Şehzade Mustafa tomb decoration - Şirin Hatun tomb interior - Şirin Hatun tomb interior ## See also - [Complex of Mehmed I](/source/Complex_of_Mehmed_I) - [Gülruh Hatun](/source/G%C3%BClruh_Hatun) - [Şirin Hatun](/source/%C5%9Eirin_Hatun) - [Bülbül Hatun](/source/B%C3%BClb%C3%BCl_Hatun) ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Centre, UNESCO World Heritage. ["Bursa and Cumalıkızık: the Birth of the Ottoman Empire"](https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1452/). *UNESCO World Heritage Centre*. Retrieved 2024-04-10. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-:1_2-0)** Overview in: Richard H. Turnbull, “The Muradiye Complex in Bursa and the Development of the Ottoman Funerary Tradition,” PhD dissertation, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 2004. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** On the 19th-century restorations, see: Beatrice St. Laurent, “Léon Parvillée: His Role as Restorer of Bursa’s Monuments after the 1855 Earthquake and his Contribution to the Exposition Universelle of 1867,” in *l'Empire ottoman, la République de Turquie et la France*, ed. Hâmit Batu and Jean-Louis Bacqué-Grammont. Istanbul: Isis, 1986, 247–282. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["150 YILLIK SIVANIN ALTINDAN 550 YILLIK TARİH ÇIKTI | Haberler"](https://www.bursa.bel.tr/150-yillik-sivanin-altindan-550-yillik-tarih-cikti/haber/12488,). *www.bursa.bel.tr*. Retrieved 2019-03-06. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** ["Sehzade Mustafa, Cihangir, Mehmed Tomb, Muhtesem Yuzyil"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOQqaQn5ne8). *[YouTube](/source/YouTube)*. [Archived](https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211205/AOQqaQn5ne8) from the original on 2021-12-05. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** Richard H. Turnbull, “The Muradiye Complex in Bursa and the Development of the Ottoman Funerary Tradition,” PhD dissertation, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 2004. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** Aptullah Kuran, *The Mosque in Early Ottoman Architecture*. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968, 71–72. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** Albert Gabriel, Une capitale turque: Brousse, Bursa. Paris: E. de Boccard, 1958, vol. 1, p.111; Robert Mantran, “Les inscriptions arabes de Brousse,” Bulletin d’Etudes Orientales XIV (1954): 87–114, at 94. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-9)** On the testament, see: Mithat Sertoğlu, “İkinci Murad’ın Vasiyetnamesi,” *Vakıflar Dergisi* 8 (1969): 67–69 and İsmail Hakkı Uzunçarşılı, . “Sultan II. Murad’ın Vasiyetnamesi,” *Vakıflar Dergisi* IV (1958): 1–18. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-:0_10-0)** Albert Gabriel, *Une capitale turque: Brousse, Bursa*. 2 vols., Paris: E. de Boccard, 1958, vol. 1, 118 1. **[^](#cite_ref-11)** ["Muradiye Complex in Bursa, Turkey"](http://www.lonelyplanet.com/turkey/bursa/sights/historic/muradiye-complex). [Lonely Planet](/source/Lonely_Planet). Retrieved 2017-05-28. ## External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to [Muradiye Complex](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Muradiye_Complex). - "Muradiye Complex." Publications of Bursa Governorship. 2004. - [Pictures of the complex in detail](http://www.pbase.com/dosseman/bursa_turkey) - [Muradiye Complex, Bursa, Archnet](http://archnet.org/sites/1911) v t e Mosques in Turkey Ankara Ahmet Hamdi Akseki Aslanhane Hacı Bayram Kocatepe Maltepe Melike Hatun Antalya Korkut Murat Pasha Omer Pasha Tekeli Mehmet Pasha Yivli Minaret Bursa Bayezid I Emir Sultan Grand Green Hüdavendigar Muradiye Orhan Gazi Veled-i Yaniç Diyarbakır Behram Pasha Great Hazreti Süleyman Sheikh Matar Edirne Evliya Kasim Pasha Muradiye Old Selimiye Üç Şerefeli Istanbul Altunizade Arap Atik Mustafa Pasha Atik Valide Ayazma Bayezid II Bebek Beylerbeyi Blue (Sultan Ahmed) Böcekli Bodrum Burmalı Çamlıca Çinili Defterdar Dolmabahçe Emirgan Eski Imaret Eyüp Sultan Fatih Fenari Isa Firuz Agha Gazi Atik Ali Pasha Gül Hadim Ibrahim Pasha Hagia Sophia Handan Agha Haseki Sultan Hirami Ahmet Pasha Hırka-i Şerif İskender Pasha, Fatih İskender Pasha, Kanlıca Imrahor Kalenderhane Kara Ahmed 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Tunisia Mosques Istanbul Altunizade Mosque Atik Valide Mosque Ayazma Mosque Bayezid II Mosque Beylerbeyi Mosque Büyükdere Kara Mehmet Kethüda Mosque Çinili Mosque Dolmabahçe Mosque Eyüp Sultan Mosque Fatih Mosque Gazi Atik Ali Pasha Mosque Haseki Sultan Mosque Hırka-i Şerif Mosque Laleli Mosque Mahmut Pasha Mosque Mesih Mehmed Pasha Mosque Mihrimah Sultan Mosque (Edirnekapı) Mihrimah Sultan Mosque (Üsküdar) Muradiye Complex Murat Pasha Mosque Nışançı Mehmed Pasha Mosque Nuruosmaniye Mosque Ortaköy Mosque Piyale Pasha Mosque Şehzade Mosque Selimiye Mosque Sokollu Mehmed Pasha Mosque (Azapkapı) Sokollu Mehmed Pasha Mosque (Büyükçekmece) Sokollu Mehmed Pasha Mosque (Kadırga) Sultanahmet Mosque Süleymaniye Mosque Vasat Atik Ali Pasha Mosque Yavuz Selim Mosque Yeni Valide Mosque (Eminönü) Yeni Valide Mosque (Üsküdar) Yıldız Hamidiye Mosque Other cities Ali Pasha Mosque Bajrakli Mosque Bayezid I Mosque Behram Pasha Mosque Bursa Grand Mosque Çapanoğlu Mosque Dzhumaya Mosque Emir Sultan Mosque Esmahan Sultan Mosque Evliya Kasim Pasha Mosque Ferhadija Mosque Ferhat Pasha Mosque (Banja Luka) Ferhat Pasha Mosque (Sarajevo) Fethiye Mosque (Athens) Gazi Husrev-beg Mosque Green Mosque of Bursa (Yeşil Mosque) Green Mosque of İznik Hadum Mosque Haji Özbek Mosque Hüdavendigar Mosque Ibrahim Pasha Mosque İzzet Mehmet Pasha Mosque Juma-Jami Mosque Karađoz Bey Mosque Kasım Pasha Mosque Muradiye Complex (Bursa) Muradiye Mosque (Edirne) Murat Pasha Mosque Old Mosque of Edirne Orhan Gazi Mosque Osman Shah Mosque Selimiye Mosque Sinan Pasha Mosque (Prizren) Sokollu Mehmed Pasha Mosque (Lüleburgaz) Sulayman Pasha Mosque Suleymaniye Mosque Tombul Mosque Tzistarakis Mosque Üç Şerefeli Mosque Veled-i Yaniç Mosque Yakovalı Hasan Paşa Mosque Madrasas Büyük Aga Medrese Caferağa Medrese Medrese of Mehmet Şakir Paşa Rüstem Pasha Medrese Türbes (tombs) Green Tomb (Yeşil Türbe) Tomb of Abdul Hamid I Tomb of Hayreddin Barbarossa Tomb of Turhan Sultan Caravanserais Büyük Han Büyük Valide Han Büyük Yeni Han Hafsa Sultan Caravanserai Kapan Han Khan al-Umdan Khan As'ad Pasha Koza Han Kürkçü Han Öküz Mehmed Pasha Caravanserai Rüstem Pasha Caravanserai (Edirne) Rüstem Pasha Caravanserai (Ereğli) Rüstem Pasha Caravanserai (Erzurum) Sokollu Mehmet Pasha Caravanserai Hospitals Complex of Sultan Bayezid II Bridges Arslanagić Bridge Mostar Bridge Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge Uzunköprü Bridge Fortifications Ajyad Fortress Anadoluhisarı Depedogen Castle of Kars Kilitbahir Castle Rumelihisarı Yedikule Fortress Kalemegdan Yeni-Kale Palaces Azm Palace Beylerbeyi Palace Çırağan Palace Dolmabahçe Palace Eski Saray Grand Serail Hatice Sultan Palace Ishak Pasha Palace Topkapi Palace Yıldız Palace Clock towers Büyük Saat Dolmabahçe Clock Tower Etfal Hospital Clock Tower İzmir Clock Tower İzmit Clock Tower Jaffa Clock Tower Nusretiye Clock Tower Yıldız Clock Tower Fountains Fountain of Ahmed III Fountain of Ahmed III (Üsküdar) Tophane Fountain Sultan Mahmut Fountain Hammams Bayezid II Hamam Bey Hamam Büyük Hamam Cağaloğlu Hamam Čifte Hammam Davud Pasha Hamam Çemberlitaş Hamam Hürrem Sultan Hamam Király Baths Mahmut Pasha Hamam Ömeriye Baths Süleymaniye Hamam Tahtakale Hamam Rudas Baths other monuments Köprülü Library Mihrişah Sultan Complex Nilüfer Hatun Imareti Imaret (Kavala) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Muradiye Complex](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muradiye_Complex) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muradiye_Complex?action=history)). 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