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The Bayezid II complex (Beyazidiye) is built at Edirne

بناء كوليه بايزيد الثاني بأدرنة

1484 CE · c. 889 AH – 1488 CE · 893 AH

Edirne

The Beyazidiye külliye was built on the west bank of the Tunca in 1484-8 by the architect Hayrettin — a mosque, a hospital, an insane asylum, a medical school, a hospice, an imaret, a bakery and food depots; a chronogram on the mosque gate gives the date 893/1488 1 2.

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Era
The Gunpowder Empires
Region
Anatolia
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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Gunpowder Empires · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era

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Edirne

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Overview

The Beyazidiye külliye of Bayezid II was built on the west bank of the Tunca in 1484-8 by the architect Hayrettin 1.

The healing complex

The complex comprised a mosque, a hospital, an insane asylum, a medical school, a hospice and an imaret; the sultan's vakfiye records a staff of 167, of whom 21 served the hospital, and Evliya Çelebi says the patients were regularly made to listen to music 3 2.

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Sultan Bayezid II Complex, Edirne· Edirne

People and things also explored

Eski Mosque, Edirne· Uc Serefeli Mosque, Edirne· Battle of Adrianople (1829)· The capital moves from Bursa to Edirne· Ottoman conquest of Edirne· Murad I builds the Old Palace at Edirne· The great fire of Edirne· Edirne Incident

Sources

  1. John Freely, A History of Ottoman Architecture (2011) , p. 70
  2. Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 2 p. 712
  3. John Freely, A History of Ottoman Architecture (2011) , p. 73
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islam.museum contributors. “The Bayezid II complex (Beyazidiye) is built at Edirne”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/beyazidiye-edirne-890/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-01.

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