Author
Pulpit teacher: Hajj Muhammad bin Abdul Aziz from Gaziantep.
Author Original
معلم المنبر الحاج محمد بن عبد العزيز من عينتاب
Publication Date
802 / 1400
Type
Other
Language
Undetermined
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Library
Museum With No Frontiers
Record ID
monument;ISL;tr;Mon01;16;ar
Library Location
Bursa, Türkiye
Date
802 / 1400
Notes
According to narrators, when the Karamanid ruler Mehmed Bey besieged the city of Bursa in 806 / 1412, he ordered piles of firewood to be collected around the mosque to burn it completely, and he caused damage to the stones covering the walls. To hide this damage, the walls of the mosque were covered with plaster. In the period 1951-1959, it was re-covered again after the gypsum fell from it. The mosque was built on a rectangular area extending in an east-west direction, with approximate dimensions of 55 x 69 metres. There are entrances in the eastern, western and northern walls of the mosque, the most luxurious of which is the northern entrance; There are also two rows of windows in each wall. As for the rectangular window arches in the bottom row, they have different designs and drawings. There are two minarets in the eastern and western corners of the northern wall. The minaret adjacent to the building in the western corner stands on a base, and can be entered through two entrances with two stairs: one from inside the building and the other from outside. Both lead to the balcony, but the external staircase also leads to the roof. This minaret contains an inscription showing that it was built during the reign of Sultan Bayezid I. As for the eastern minaret, it is not adjacent to the building, and its base is located inside the adjacent Amir Khan stable, which suggests that the minaret was not built during the construction period of the mosque. The prayer hall is divided into 20 equal-sized domed spaces defined by 12 cruciform buttresses and buttresses adjacent to the walls, supported by arches. One of the domes located along the passage that connects the northern entrance to the mihrab is open to the sky and has a fountain beneath it. Although there are two rows of windows and openings in the cylindrical necks of the domes that allow light to pass through, natural daylight rarely enters the prayer hall. The mihrab is located in the middle of the qibla wall, its recess is rectangular, and its top is decorated with muqarnas. The decorations of the mihrab were completed on Shawwal 15, 979 / March 2, 1572, by Master Muhammad, and Zaini Shalabi entrusted him with them. As for the colorful and gilded decoration of the mihrab, it was completed in 1322 / 1905. The decoration of the woodwork of the pulpit, executed in the Kundigari technique, is reminiscent of the arts of the Anatolian Seljuk era. On the sides of the pulpit are floral designs engraved within geometric designs formed between wood slices. The inscription on the pulpit indicates that it was executed by Hajj Muhammad ibn Abd al-Aziz of Aintep in 802 / 1400, during the reign of Sultan Bayezid I. The orator’s shrine consists of a single marble piece, carved in 1231 / 1816, while the chanters’ shrine, which rests on eight wooden columns, was made in 956 / 1549. The mosque’s decorations can be seen on the northern entrance and the mihrab. The pulpit and the walls of the prayer hall. The decorations of the northern entrance and the mihrab include carved floral and geometric shapes. Most of the epigraphic decoration on the walls of the prayer hall was completed in the period 1192-1357 / 1778-1938.
Sample Text
"The Grand Mosque" within Discover Islamic Art. Museum Without Borders, 2026. 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=monument;ISL;tr;Mon01;16;ar
