Bursa Grand Mosque
About
The Grand Mosque of Bursa — known in Turkish as the Ulu Cami — is one of the great early monuments of Ottoman religious architecture. It rises in the heart of Bursa's old city, set among the historic markets and caravanserais that have grown up around it.
The mosque was raised by Sultan Bayezid I 'Yıldırım' as a thanksgiving for his victory at the Battle of Nicopolis in 1396, in which a Crusader army was decisively turned back. Construction was completed in 1399.
The Ulu Cami is considered one of the most important mosques in Bursa and a defining work of the formative period of Ottoman architecture, when the earlier inverted-T (zaviye) plans of Bursa gave way to broader, multi-domed congregational prayer halls. Its commanding presence in the old city remains central to Bursa's identity as the cradle of the Ottoman state.
History
After his victory over the Crusader forces at the Battle of Nicopolis on the Danube in 1396, Sultan Bayezid I commissioned the Grand Mosque of Bursa as a votive monument. Construction proceeded from 1396 to 1399, producing a mosque of unprecedented scale for the early Ottomans and one of the first great congregational mosques of the dynasty in its emerging capital.
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