Muradiye Mosque

The Muradiye Mosque is a 16th-century Ottoman mosque in Manisa, Turkey. The Muradiye Mosque in Manisa was built among 1583-1586 for the Ottoman sultan Murad III. It replaced an in advance small mosque at the website that have been commenced in 1571 whilst prince Murad had been governor of Manisa. The sultanic mosque changed into designed via Mimar Sinan however built through the architect Mahmud Halife till his death after which from January 1586 by the architect Sedefkar Mehmed Aga who might later layout the Sultan Ahmed Mosque in Istanbul.

As properly as tiled revetments some of the stonework became decorated through a crew of painters despatched from the capital. In 1584 the sultan ordered one 150 Murano oil lamps from Venice. These had been possibly intended for the mosque. The associated madrasa and visitor-house have been not completed until after 1590. Neither Sinan nor Murad III visited Manisa to look at the mosque after its of completion.

The mosque is built of sandstone and has a vital dome and 3 halfdomes overlaying the prayer corridor. The portico is blanketed by way of five smaller domes and there are two single-galleried minarets. The indoors is adorned with Iznik tiles. The mosque is part of a larger complicated inclusive of a medrese and imaret. Most of ancient Manisa became destroyed for the duration of the Greek navy retreat from the metropolis in 1922, the mosque become one of the few buildings to live to tell the tale. The imaret is now the Manisa Museum.