Geyve Han

Geyve Han in Bursa, located in the Covered Bazaar, is a caravanserai commissioned in the 15th century by Hacı İvaz Pasha, son of Ahi Bayezıt of the Tokat guilds, for the procurement of the Green Mosque, and presented to Çelebi Mehmet. The han has previously been mentioned as Hacı İvaz Pasha Han, Payigâh, Guild and Ütücüler Han.

The han, whose walls are built of brick and rubble stone, is two‑storeyed. The doors, footings and arches are all made of brick. The building has a square‑plan courtyard surrounded by arcades and rooms opening onto them. The arcades are covered with vaults, and the rooms with ribbed vaults. Today the vaults and domes are covered with concrete.

There are twenty‑six rooms on the lower floor and thirty rooms on the upper floor. The rooms on the lower floor have two windows each, while those on the upper floor have one window each. In the middle of the han there is an octagonal marble fountain. The eaves are decorated with a triangular brick frieze.

The han has three entrances, on the south, north and west sides. In addition, documents indicate that a prayer room existed in Geyve Han. It is presumed that this prayer room, as in other Bursa hans, was located on the fountain. However, historian‑author Ekrem Hakkı Ayverdi writes that the room opposite the western gate was the prayer room. The han underwent repairs in 1647, 1699, 1742 and 1775. Its greatest danger was survived in the fire of 1958.

Geyve Han is one of the structures of the Green Complex, which is a component of the World Heritage Site “Bursa and Cumalıkızık: The Birth of the Ottoman Empire” that was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2014.

Today it is generally used by merchants selling various wholesale textile products.