Bayezid I Mosque (
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: ''Yıldırım Camii'' or ''Yıldırım Bayezid Camii'') is a historic
mosque
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in
Bursa
( grc-gre, Προῦσα, Proûsa, Latin: Prusa, ota, بورسه, Arabic:بورصة) is a city in northwestern Turkey and the administrative center of Bursa Province. The fourth-most populous city in Turkey and second-most populous in the ...
,
Turkey
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, that is part of the large complex (
külliye
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) built by the
Ottoman Sultan
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Bayezid I
Bayezid I ( ota, بايزيد اول, tr, I. Bayezid), also known as Bayezid the Thunderbolt ( ota, link=no, یلدیرم بايزيد, tr, Yıldırım Bayezid, link=no; – 8 March 1403) was the Ottoman Sultan from 1389 to 1402. He adopted ...
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Yıldırım Bayezid
Bayezid I ( ota, بايزيد اول, tr, I. Bayezid), also known as Bayezid the Thunderbolt ( ota, link=no, یلدیرم بايزيد, tr, Yıldırım Bayezid, link=no; – 8 March 1403) was the Ottoman Sultan from 1389 to 1402. He adopted ...
– ''Bayezid the Thunderbolt'') between 1391–1395.
It is situated in Bursa metropolitan district of
Yıldırım, also named after the same sultan. It underwent extensive renovation following the
1855 Bursa earthquake.
Architecture
The mosque comprises a central hall with a large dome flanked by eyvans on the east and west with smaller domes and another large domed eyvan with mihrab on the south.
There are four rooms with fireplaces and cupboards to the north and south of side of the eyvans. The southern rooms are accessed directly from the central hall while the northern rooms are accessed thought small vestibules. Each northern room also contains two niches on the sides that are accessed through the vestibules. The entrance hall of the mosque features high domed ceilings. The ''last prayer section'' (semi-open section of the mosque at the north end) is built with five sub-sections and each subsection is covered with an individual dome.
In the Yıldırım Camii, all three eyvans were built three steps higher than the central hall. Yıldırım Camii was the first structure where a ''Bursa Arch'' was implemented. This flattened arch is located in between the central hall and south eyvan and connects and supports the two large domes. There are two minarets on the sides of the mosque. Unlike similar mosques of its time in Bursa, Yıldırım Camii was constructed entirely out of
dimension stone
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s and bricks were not used in any part of the mosque.
File:Yildirim Mosque 1386.jpg, Interior
File:Yildirim Mosque 7117.jpg, last prayer section (semi-open section of the mosque at the north end)
File:Yildirim Mosque 7125.jpg, Side room
File:Yildirim Mosque 7149.jpg, View towards the central eyvan with minber and mihrab
File:Yildirim Tomb 7151.jpg, As part of the complex: the mausoleum
References
External links
Yildirim Bayezid Külliyesi Archnet
Some 45 pictures of the complex
{{Ottoman architecture
Mosques completed in 1395
Mosque buildings with domes
1395 establishments in the Ottoman Empire
Ottoman mosques in Bursa
Yıldırım, Bursa