Hüdavendigar Mosque

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Hüdavendigar Mosque
Hüdavendigar Camii
Religion
AffiliationIslam
Location
LocationBursa, Turkey
Hüdavendigar Mosque is located in Turkey
Hüdavendigar Mosque
Location of the mosque in Turkey
Geographic coordinates40°12′08″N 29°01′15″E / 40.20222°N 29.02083°E / 40.20222; 29.02083
Architecture
TypeMosque
StyleIslamic, Ottoman architecture
Groundbreaking1365
Completed1385; 639 years ago (1385)
Minaret(s)1
Part ofBursa and Cumalıkızık: the Birth of the Ottoman Empire
CriteriaCultural: (i), (ii), (iv), (vi)
Reference1452-003
Inscription2014 (38th Session)

Hüdavendigar Mosque or Murat I, the Hüdavendigar Mosque (Turkish: Hüdavendigar Camii or 1. Murat Hüdavendigar Camii) is a historic mosque in Bursa, Turkey, that is part of the large complex (külliye) built by the Ottoman Sultan, Murad I, between 1365–1385 and is also named after the same sultan. It went under extensive renovation following the 1855 Bursa earthquake.

Architecture[edit]

The mosque has a reversed T-plan and the Külliye further consists of a Madrasa) and dervish lodge (zaviye), mausoleum Türbe, fountain, a soup kitchen Imaret, a hamam and a Koran school for boys (sibyan mektebi).

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