Muradiye Mosque, Edirne

The Muradiye of Edirne is an imperial mosque on an isolated hilltop north-east of the town centre; Murat II founded it in 1435 as a zaviye, a dervish hostel — reportedly inspired by a dream in which Celalettin Rumi, founder of the Mevlevis, asked the sultan to build shelter for his brotherhood — and later converted it into a mosque, housing the dervishes in a now-vanished tekke in the garden ¹.

A five-bay porch precedes it — the central bay domed high, the others transverse-vaulted — and the single minaret is a nineteenth-century replacement; the mosque is of the cross-axial eyvan type with domed eyvans opening off the central hall to east, west and south ². The main eyvan is richly decorated with ceramic tiles and frescoes, and the mihrab carries some of the finest extant early fifteenth-century Iznik tilework ².

• Source read: Freely, A History of Ottoman Architecture (2011), pp. 82–83 (Muradiye Camii, Edirne).
• Record created in this batch; distinct from building/muradiye-mosque-bursa and muradiye-mosque-baghdad.