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- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
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- Anatolia
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Summary
Yeşil Türbe, the mausoleum of Mehmet I, crowns the hill across from the Green Mosque in Bursa — a tall octagon under a low lead-covered dome, commissioned by Murat II after his father's death in May 1421 and built by the architect Hacı Ivaz Pasha 1.
Decoration and külliye
Its exterior walls were originally revetted in the deep blue and green tiles that gave the türbe and mosque their names; destroyed in the 1855 earthquake, they were replaced by inferior modern Kütahya tiles. The interior rivals the mosque itself: carved doors, tile wall revetment, a decorated mihrab and the sultan's cenotaph in golden calligraphy on deep blue 1. The Yeşil külliye also included a medrese, an imaret and a hamam; only the imaret survives, now housing the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Art 2.
For young visitors
Across from Bursa's Green Mosque stands a green tomb for an Ottoman sultan — its walls once glowed entirely with blue and green tiles until an earthquake destroyed them.
Curatorial notes
- Source read: Freely, A History of Ottoman Architecture (2011), pp. 63–64 (Yeşil Türbe).
Sources
- John Freely, A History of Ottoman Architecture (2011) , p.63
- John Freely, A History of Ottoman Architecture (2011) , p.63-64
- Goodwin, A History of Ottoman Architecture (1971)
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islam.museum contributors. “Yeşil Türbe”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/building/yesil-turbe/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-23.