YeÅŸil Mosque

The Green Mosque ( Yesil Camii Turkish, pronounced Jeschil Dschaami ` ) is one of the three great mosques in Bursa ( Turkey). It is considered a masterpiece of early Ottoman architecture and is the starting point of a series in Bursa style erected mosques. It was in the 15th century ( at the mosque is given as a construction period from 1412 to 1419, sources close to lay 1414-1424 ) by architect Haci Ivaz Pasha Sultan Mehmed I. on behalf of the built of stone and marble. The walls of the executed in the reverse T-shaped building are covered with green tiles, which gave her the name. Restoration work in 1950 it was still beyond precious ceiling paintings. The decorations on windows, porch and facades testimony to the great skill of the masons of that time.

General

The Ottoman art has developed their own forms of expression in architecture, tile and pottery, textile art and book art. In many areas, it set new standards of quality.

The uninhibited / free representation like the ruler, the enormous financial power of the empire, the sense of planning and precision as well as an inexhaustible reservoir of artistic ideas that came from architects, artists and craftsmen Islamic and Christian origin, helped the Ottoman art to a long-lasting main theme.

The Ottoman architecture (ie the new style ) began in Bursa and Edirne. The former Byzantine settlements Bursa and Edirne, chose the Ottomans to their first major cities, and the new rulers opened interesting perspectives for their construction activities. At the beginning of Ottoman architecture development the traditional pillars of the mosque stands by Seljuk patterns that are distinguished by their simple grandeur of the cityscape. However, despite the impressive monumentality, the multi domed mosque turned out to be " discontinued model ".

Murad I (1359 - 1389) founded in Bursa, which became the capital since 1326, a mosque with a central dome room ( Hüdavendigar Camii ). The mosque was presented on the upper floor as a madrasah ( Islamic = college) and Koranic school, a soup kitchen, a well house, and of course there is the tomb of Murad I at this point. His son and successor Bayazid I (1389-1402) donated the Yildirim Mosque, which clearly already differed from the mosque his father.

Yesil Camii

The next Foundation Complex in Bursa goes to son Bayazid, Sultan Mehmed I. (1413-1421), back. Yesil Camii (the " Green Mosque " ), the most beautiful of the three great mosques, which is accompanied with a madrassah, soup kitchen and the tomb of the founder, is oriented with the two domed prayer room on the 20-year previously established mosque Bayazid I. whereas they regard the Baudekors and the interior of Seljuk traditions relates to. The green mosque represented one of the highlights of the early Ottoman architecture is, nevertheless, the construction following the death of Mehmed I in 1421, was never fully completed, which obviously planned porch is missing.

It was in the 15th century ( 1412-1419 ) by architect Haci Ivaz Pasha, built by order of the Sultan of stone and marble. The walls of the building are covered with quality pottery. In addition, was in the mosque a precious ceiling painting, which was painted by the first muralist the Ottoman period Ali ibn Ilyas. The decorations on windows, porch and facades testimony to the great skill of the masons that time, and were among the most beautiful examples of marble cladding. By omitting the Eywans a standardization of public worship hall was reached, and the four corner spaces that served secondary purposes are also clearly separated. In the green mosque, a special space is created above the entrance, where the ruler - similar to the Byzantine Empress in the Hagia Sophia - his prayer could do to a well- protected place.

Faience

The tile decoration of the interior is made of green and blue glazed Sechseckfliesen who have the building named " Green Mosque " forgive and increases in the prayer niche and the Sultansloge where a certain of bright colors star and vine decoration highlights accordingly. The faience were prepared according to the tradition in Iznik ( Nicaea ). During the time of the Seljuks Fayencemosaik was common in Anatolia, the technique of Cuerda seca was here for the first time used, in which the different glaze colors next to each other applied and prevented by fatty limitations from running into each other in the fire.

Cuerda seca: When Cuerda -seca tile ( = dry thread ) is meant the separation between two glazes.

Architects

The master came after disclosure of signatures from the northwestern city of Tabriz Persian. They created the tiles lining of only after the death of Mehmed I. consummate grave construction, achieved as a domed octagon with a height of 27 meters, a previously unknown in Anatolia monumentality. Design and tiling equipment should be pointing the way for future Herrschermausoleen in Istanbul.

Quote

A description of Sultan Mehmed I. on the green mosque: " The structure of the agent of nature, the creation of the Creator to the creature, I mean this lofty sacral building is a replica of the Garden of Paradise, which was copied by the addition of the Almighty and Omniscient; and is one of the realms of the afterlife, which was woven with the splendor of worldly life, the associated advances proudly in all directions and the cities leaves behind in confusion - not God the ages, as long as the circular vault of heaven turns blessed with a similar work to ... "