The Green Tomb ( tr, Yeşil Türbe) is a mausoleum of the fifth

Ottoman Sultan The sultans of the Ottoman Empire ( tr, Osmanlı padişahları), who were all members of the Ottoman dynasty (House of Osman), ruled over the transcontinental empire from its perceived inception in 1299 to its dissolution in 1922. At its hei ...

Mehmed I Mehmed I ( 1386 – 26 May 1421), also known as Mehmed Çelebi ( ota, چلبی محمد, "the noble-born") or Kirişçi ( el, Κυριτζής, Kyritzis, "lord's son"), was the Ottoman sultan from 1413 to 1421. The fourth son of Sultan Bayezid ...

, 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 Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...

. It was built by Mehmed's son and successor

Murad II Murad II ( ota, مراد ثانى, Murād-ı sānī, tr, II. Murad, 16 June 1404 – 3 February 1451) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1421 to 1444 and again from 1446 to 1451. Murad II's reign was a period of important economic deve ...

following the death of the sovereign in 1421. The architect Hacı Ivaz Pasha designed the tomb and the

Yeşil Mosque The Green Mosque ( Turkish: ''Yeşil Camii''), also known as the Mosque of Mehmed I, is a part of a larger complex (Turkish: külliye) on the east side of Bursa, Turkey, the former capital of the Ottoman Turks before they captured Constantinopl ...

opposite to it.

Architecture

Set amid cypresses on top of the hill in the Yeşil neighborhood in

, the mausoleum stands higher than the rest of the complex. It is built on a hexagonal plan and crowned with a hemi-spherical dome. The exterior of the mausoleum is clad with the green-blue tiles that give it its name. A majority of the tiles were replaced by contemporary

Kütahya Kütahya () (historically, Cotyaeum or Kotyaion, Ancient Greek, Greek: Κοτύαιον) is a city in western Turkey which lies on the Porsuk River, Porsuk river, at 969 metres above sea level. It is inhabited by some 578,640 people (2022 estimate) ...

tiles following damage in the 1855 Bursa earthquake.Tile with arabesque decoration [Anatolia (Bursa)] (1998.246) , Works of Art , Timeline of Art History , The Metropolitan Museum of Art
/ref> The entry portal is crowned with a semi-umbrella vault and has muqarnas niches above marble seats on both side of the entrance. İznik tiles with flower patterns in blue, white and yellow adorn the portal. Inside, past the carved wooden doors, the royal catafalque stands on a platform at the center surrounded by seven other tombs. It is richly decorated with scriptures and flower designs painted in yellow, white and blue

glazed tiles Porcelain tiles or ceramic tiles are porcelain or ceramic tiles commonly used to cover floors and walls, with a water absorption rate of less than 0.5 percent. The clay used to build porcelain tiles is generally denser. They can either be Ce ...

. The lower section of walls is lined with blue-green tiles, also used in tympana of windows on the interior. The muqarnas niche of

mihrab Mihrab ( ar, محراب, ', pl. ') is a niche in the wall of a mosque that indicates the ''qibla'', the direction of the Kaaba in Mecca towards which Muslims should face when praying. The wall in which a ''mihrab'' appears is thus the "qibla w ...

on the

qibla The qibla ( ar, قِبْلَة, links=no, lit=direction, translit=qiblah) is the direction towards the Kaaba in the Sacred Mosque in Mecca, which is used by Muslims in various religious contexts, particularly the direction of prayer for the s ...

wall is also set in a large frame of ornamental tilework: the mosaic of tiles inside the niche depicts a garden of roses, carnations and hyacinths. The

chandelier A chandelier (; also known as girandole, candelabra lamp, or least commonly suspended lights) is a branched ornamental light fixture designed to be mounted on ceilings or walls. Chandeliers are often ornate, and normally use incandescent li ...

and the colored glass windows are later additions. File:Yesil Turbe 7786.jpg, Decoration above entrance File:Yesil Turbe 7782.jpg, Decoration on the wall File:Yesil Turbe 7746.jpg, Mihrab and part of dome File:Green Tomb 7487.jpg, Green Tomb from outside File:Green Tomb 7483.jpg, Above entrance to tomb File:Green Tomb 7475.jpg, Grave of Mehmet I File:Green Tomb 7471.jpg, Top side of grave of Mehmet I File:Green Tomb 7462.jpg, Grave of Mehmet I in the Green Tomb File:Hafsa_hatun,daye_hatun,ayşe_hatun_türbesi_bursa_yeşil_türbesi_-_panoramio.jpg File:Yeşil_Türbe_01.jpg File:Yeşil_Türbe_06.jpg File:Green_Tomb_-_Yeşil_Türbe_(13).jpg File:Green_Tomb_-_Yeşil_Türbe_(19).jpg

Notes

References

* * Baykal, Kazim. ''Bursa ve Anitlari''. Türkiye Anit Çevre Turizm Degerlerini Koruma Vakfi: 1982, Istanbul. (Edited reprint of original from 1950) . * Goodwin, Godfrey. ''A History of Ottoman Architecture''. Thames and Hudson: London, 1997 (reprint of 1971). * Gabriel, Albert. ''Une Capitale Turque, Brousse, Bursa''. Paris, E. de Boccard, 1958.

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Photos of the Green Tomb

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