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Dick Osseman | all galleries >> Bursa >> Bursa mosques >> Muradiye mosque & sultans' tombs >> Muradiye Mosque > Bursa dec 2007 1433.jpg
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14-DEC-2006

Bursa dec 2007 1433.jpg

On the picture: The entrance and the porch of the Muradiye (or: Murat II) Mosque. Built in 1424-1426, according to the building inscription above the door.
The elevated sections of the porch, on both sides of the central passage, are the ‘son cemaat yeri’ (= ‘area for those who came late’), where worshippers who reached the mosque late or at the last moment, will gather and fulfil their prayer duty.

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

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