From 1365 to 1385, an imperial complex was built in Bursa on the orders of Sultan Murad I, including a mosque with a madrasa and a dervish zviye, an imaret The imperial complex, including a mosque with a madrasa and a dervish zviye, an imaret, sebil fountain, türbe, hamam and mektebi (Koranic school for boys). For to work on the construction site, the Sultan allocated his prisoners. The architect's name is unknown, but it is believed that he was captured by the sultan's soldiers and was Italian.
A visit to the complex begins with a walk through the courtyard with cypress trees and a beautiful fountain. A small path leads to a mosque with columns and four windows. The base of the structure has an inverted T-shape. In the construction of the building used slab bricks and many columns with carved capitals. Through a richly decorated door, the visitor enters a delightful interior hall, the ceiling of which is lined with very rare and beautiful tiles. The interior of the mosque is decorated with fanciful Arabic inscriptions and a golden altar. In places the gilding has been damaged by both time and external precipitation. Interesting architecture and original details of the building (galleries of the facade and the second floor, window openings). The interesting architecture and original details of the building (galleries of the facade and the second floor, window openings) are striking in style and give the mosque a great resemblance to a palace. A later addition to the mosque is a single minaret, located in the north-west corner of the building. It is very similar to the small turrets of the famous Italian palazzos.
Despite the fact that the mosque has very spacious prayer rooms, there were has also been provided with rooms for students. The sixteen rooms of the first floor, located along the outer walls of the building, constituted a madrasa and had access to a U-shaped inner balcony from which the central hall of the ground floor could be viewed.
In the garden of the complex are ten polygonal convex tombs, belonging to the sultan and members of his family. The Turbe, located opposite the mosque, was built after the death of Murad I in 1389 on the orders of his son, Sultan Bayezid I.
Oil lamps were previously used for lighting in the Murad I Mosque, and this has led to fires on more than one occasion. repeatedly caused fires. The structure has recently been restored. Interesting is the fact that almost all of Bursa's famous thinkers studied in the madrasah located on the first floor of the mosque.
