One of the truly great mosques in Bursa is the Yesil or Green (1424). It has a wealth of great tiles and carving, apart from just being good architecture. This is a detail.

The Yeşil Cami (‘Green’ mosque, because of the predominant colour of its tiles inside) is the most decorated of the city’s houses of prayer. Built for sultan Mehmed I Çelebi (1389-1421) by the architect Hacı Ivaz Paşa, who was also an army commander and a vizier; he is the architect of the Yeşil Türbe (mausoleum) too. The mosque’s building was completed in 1419, its inner decoration in 1424.

On the picture: A detail of the stone carving at the Taşkapı (monumental entrance). These elegant floral motifs, although part of a late-Seljuk draft, are already fully Ottoman in style.

Correspondent: J.M.Criel, Antwerpen.
Sources: ‘Vakıf Abideler ve eski Eserler’ - Vakıflar Genel Müdürlüğü III, Ankara 1983 & Wikipedia,