Bayezid Mosque in Bursa, built by the architect Yakub Shah or Hayreddin Pasha in 1500-1506 years by order of son Mehmed the Conqueror Sultan Bayezid II (the years of reign: 1481- 1512) - an ancient, but at the same time bright and original, impressive building, which gives an idea of ​​the Ottoman architectural style of the Middle Ages, though not distinguished elegance of the Green Mosque and not so lavishly decorated.

It is the oldest surviving mosque of Sultan mosque in the city, built in a transitional style from classical to ranneosmanskogo, heavily influenced by the architecture of the Cathedral of Hagia Sophia. She is the one of the largest in Istanbul and has two minarets decorated with brick patterns. It is located in the old part of Istanbul's Beyazit Square on (the current name of the square - Liberty Square or Hurriyet Meydan). Not far from the gate of the mosque are the Grand Bazaar "Beyazit" and the main gate of Istanbul University. The diameter of the dome - 17 meters. The minarets are decorated with brick patterns.

Mosque reflects the fashion of the construction of the dome structures. Of particular interest is the front yard rectangular arches. Entrance to the mosque is decorated gates, decorated rich and luxurious stalaktitoobraznymi ornaments and inscriptions, which reflects the influence of Seljuk architecture of the building. 25 domes rest on the 20 ancient columns made of red porphyry and pink granite. The diameter of the dome is 17 meters.

Bayazid Mosque architectural feature is the combination of style of the original Bursa mosques and mosques built in pozdneosmansky period. On the eastern and western parts of the front dome placed semi-dome supported by four massive columns with stalactite finial in the shape of elephant feet and 2 columns of porphyry marble. During the construction of the complex are widely used columns of marble, granite, porphyry and other building elements borrowed from the ancient (380-393 gg.) Byzantine Theodosius Forum.

The first interesting feature of the mosque is that the minarets are separated from each other at a distance of about one hundred meters. The second feature is that this mosque, like most of the mosques built in ranneosmansky period was originally created to contain merchants, pilgrims and wandering dervishes.

In contrast to the Seljuk era mosque, a swimming pool (or as it is called the Turks - shadrivan) taken out of the premises to the courtyard. The color harmony of the arcades around the courtyard and marble coating worthy of special attention. On both sides of the mosque built Seref (balcony, on the minaret from which the muezzin calls to prayer), which is located at a height of 87 m. The minarets of eight red stripes, which give the building a special touch of the mosque.

It should be noted that the trees from construction sites were removed by Turkish builders, so in the courtyard of the Mosque of Bayezid at the present time a few cypresses grow, giving a very picturesque view of the whole ensemble.

The plan of the building is very interesting. On the right and left of the entrance to the premises of the mosque can be seen 2 wings, which form a kind of porch with arcades, the sharp arches. By embarking on the extreme point of one of the chapels you can admire the grand spectacle that is a long vaulted gallery in the form of 25-domed portico and reminiscent of the Middle Ages the monastery refectory. Ottoman architects were covering the dome of the mosque lead plates, and on the steeple was erected a golden crescent. Despite the fact that the mosque is one of the burial, the tomb or "turbot" is behind the mosque.

Four small domes are located on each of the side aisles, which were separated by columns. Around all the domes and semi-domes were painted ornaments reminiscent of patterns on fabrics like motifs patterns deposited on a nomadic tent yörüks - ancestors of the Ottomans. Rise Mahfil Hyunkara destined for the ruler-hyunkara was done in a very elegant manner. In the mausoleum, which is a turbot octagonal, made of rough planed stone, behind the mosque next to the tomb of Sultan Bayezid, rests Selcuk Hatun. In the third turbot in 1857, a very famous person buried the Tanzimat period - the Great Reshid Pasha.

The complex is located on an area of ​​Bayezid west of Kapali Charshi it includes the very Mosque Bayezid, imaret (dining room, where they feed the servants, students, the sick and the poor), hospitals, schools, madrassas, hammam (Turkish bath) and a caravanserai.

Caravanserai and imaret, considered charitable institution in the Ottoman Empire, is now owned by the city library, and in the madrassas, which is located to the west of the mosque, now houses the Museum of Calligraphy. Among several mausoleums located on the south side of the mosque are the mausoleum of the founder of the mosque of Sultan Bayezid II.

In Bayazid Mosque is now titled Medical Museum. To the north of the mosque of Bayazid is a complex of the old university, who in the late 19th century the first Turkish higher education institution.