Azep Bey Mosque

The Azep Bey Mosque, a small domed mescid in Bursa's Muradiye neighborhood on Kullukçu street, was built in March 1456 according to an Arabic inscription in sülüs calligraphy above its entrance. It was commissioned by Azeb Bey, son of Abdullah, an emir who had fought alongside Sultan Murad II at the Battle of Varna in 1444 and was afterward sent as an envoy bearing gifts to the Mamluk sultan. The building is a single-domed, square-chambered mescid, a type found in several surviving examples across Bursa, fronted by an arcaded courtyard. The courtyard, enclosed by walls on both sides, is divided into three bays separated by two arches and roofed with barrel vaults. Next to the mosque stands Azeb Bey's türbe, whose decorative three-line Arabic inscription dates its construction to 1450, six years before the mosque itself, indicating the tomb was built first and the mosque added beside it later.