Information About Bursa Green Tomb
The Green Tomb was built in 1421 by Sultan Mehmet Celebi, son of Yildirim Bayezid. Its architect is Hacı İvaz Paşa. The building has become a symbol of Bursa and can be seen from anywhere in the city. Mehmet Çelebi I. built the tomb in his health and died 40 days later. Çelebi Sultan Mehmet and his sons Şehzade Mustafa, Mahmut and Yusuf and his daughters Selçuk Hatun, Sitti Hatun, Hafsa Hatun, Ayşe Hatun and his nanny Daya Hatuna are in the tomb.
Architectural
The tomb, which looks single-storey when viewed from the outside, is two-storey with the hall where the chests are located and the cradle-tomb burial room beneath it. The outer walls are covered with turquoise tiles. The interior of the tomb, chests, mihrab, walls, sentence door and facade cladding are made of tiles. The niche facing the Qibla is a work of art. The tiles here are masterpieces of Iznik tiles.
Evliya Çelebi's travel writings also contain information about the tomb. But the betting on the tomb; Çelebi, the medfun in which it is handled, is based on the life of Sultan Mehmet Han and no specific information is given about the architecture. However, it is learned from the text that the structure was called green imaret in that period.
‘He passed away in 824. He served as sultan for seven years, eleven months, twelve days. When he passed away, he was 38 years old. The grave is under the embroidered dome on the Qibla side of the Nurlu Mosque in the complex known as the Green Imaret. Bas (Basri Öcalan, 2008)
Repairs
The tomb was repaired by Hassan Architect Elhac Mustafa Bin Abidin 253 years after the death of Çelebi Sultan Mehmet (1647). After that, in 1769 the architect Es-Seyyit Elhac Şerif Efendi, between 1864-1867 Leon Parville and in 1904 Osman Hamdi Bey’s contribution by Asım Kömürcüoğlu repair work was done in the tomb.
The architect Macit Rüştü Kural, who has played an important role in reaching the tomb to the present day, has been the last restorer of the tomb. During these studies, he was supported by M. Zühtü Başar (Yücel, 2004).
Architecture of the Tomb
It has an octagonal prism body with the narrowest face of 7.64 m and the widest face of 10.98 m. The tomb consists of three massive architectural elements: dome, pulley and body walls. These elements are separated from each other in a way that the viewer can easily perceive. Another interesting element on the facade of the tomb is the marble frame. This frame surrounds the corners where the facades meet, flood and perimeter around the pointed arches. The windows are surrounded by marble jambs. Immediately above the window, the attenuating belt was marked with rumi motif borders. There are verses and hadiths written in the tympanon section between the arch and the window lintel. The 88888 square meter octagonal prism continues down the ground and forms the tomb circle.
tiles
It is the only shrine in Ottoman architecture where all the walls are covered with tiles. The walls and the corners of the tomb, which has eight facades, are covered with turquoise tiles. During these repairs, these tiles have been destroyed to a great extent and new tiles have been replaced. The number of original tiles, which has decreased in number, has been collected together on the left side of the door (Tayla, 2007). Tile claddings with tomb façade are generally different from conventional tile claddings. Rather, it is a kind of colored glazed bricks. The outer face is 21-22 x 10–11 cm. The back side is 10 x 5 cm. It is curved from outside to inside and has a vertical hole 1.5 cm in diameter in the middle of its side face. This is the installation section of the tiles. The original bricks were first glazed and then fired. However, during the restoration, new glazed bricks cannot be made in accordance with the original production style, and the same copy of the original glazed bricks is not correct in terms of the principles of restoration, and was covered with plaque tiles built in Kütahya Tile Factory (Tayla, 2007).
Interior
The structure has a central plan typology determined by a single dome used as a space covering element. The Turkish triangle, which is the structural and ornamental solution that the Anatolian - Turkish architecture brought to the problem of transition from the dome to the main structure, was applied in this structure as well.
The walls are covered with hexagonal turquoise tiles surrounded by two borders up to a height of 2.94 m. These include large medallions. The tomb has the most spectacular tiled altar that survived.
In the middle of the octagonal interior is the sarcophagus of Çelebi Sultan Mehmed. It has an inscription written with relief sülüs celisi. To the north are the chests of their son Mustafa and Mahmud. To the north belongs to his son Yusuf. From the back north, Çelebi Mehmed's daughter Selçuk Hatun has a relief inscription box, and her daughter Sitti Hatun (Safiye) has a navy blue motif on a white background, covered with hexagonal and triangular tiles, Ayşe Hatun and her nanny Daya Hatun's chests. Booklet).
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