The minaret of the Timur Taş Paşa Camii, a mosque dating from 1398. The minaret was restored in the 20th century.

The Minaret of Timurtaş Paşa belongs to the Timurtaş Paşa Mosque, but stands free from it. It is the only minaret of this type in Bursa. The mosque was built in 1390, and the associated bathhouse somewhat later (but before 1420). There was also an imaret (kitchen for the poor) next to the mosque, but that building did not survive.
Kara Timurtaş (or: Demirtaş) Paşa, who died in 1404, had been a ‘lala’ (educator) to Bayezıd I.
The mosque was built by Ali Bey, a son of Kara Timurtaş, on demand of his father, around 1390. Another son, Oruç Bey, built the bathhouse. The brick minaret stands on a hexagonal base with six pillars, that covers a ‘şadırvan’ (fountain for ritual ablutions). It has been restored in 1966.

Note: Some sources name another initiator for this mosque and minaret: (a second) Timurtaş Pasa who served Bayezıd I and Murad I; he was the man who spurred Bayezıd I on to conquer Istanbul (which the sultan did not) and to built the fortress of Anadolu Hisarı on the Asian shore of the Bosphorus (which the sultan did).

Correspondent: J.M.Criel, Antwerpen.
Sources: ‘Bursa - Turquie’ – booklet of the Bursa Müzeleri, 1980 ; Vikipedia ;
‘Vakıf Abideler ve eski Eserler III’ - Vakıflar Genel Müdürlüğü, Ankara 1983
& Websites of ‘mustafacambaz.com’ and ‘lifeinbursa.com’.