A notice on site indicates the mausoleum (across the road from the mosque) more or less follows the original plan. It contains the body of Murat I, the sultan who was killed after winning the battle in Serbia at Kosovo. An inscription above the entrance records a restoration in 1741 and another following the earthquake in 1855. It also mentions some metalwork and a kuran sent by Sultan Berkuk are now in the Türk ve Islam Eserleri Müzesi of Bursa.

Along with Murat I, seven members of his family are buried here: his son Yakup Çelebi, his grandson Süleyman Çelebi, the latter’s son Orhan, Sultan Beyazıt Yıldırım’s son Musa Çelebi and Şehzade (Prince) Mehmed. The last two sarcophagi have not been identified.

On the picture: Five of the seven other cenotaph sarcophagi, the first one belonging to Murat I’s son Yakup.

Correspondent: J.M.Criel, Antwerpen.
Source: ‘Vakıf Abideler ve eski Eserler (volume III)’ - Vakıflar Genel Müdürlüğü, Ankara 1983 .