Muradiye Madrasa

The Muradiye Madrasa is part of the Muradiye Complex that Ottoman Sultan Murad II had built in Bursa between 1425 and 1426, and it is this complex that gave the surrounding Muradiye district its name. The külliye was conceived as a self-contained center of religious and civic life, combining a mosque, a madrasa, a bathhouse, a darüşşifa (hospital), and a türbe, so that it served education, worship, health care, and charitable functions together. It is considered the last imperial complex of this scale built by an Ottoman sultan in Bursa before the dynasty's focus shifted toward Edirne and later Istanbul. During the twentieth century the madrasa building was repurposed as a clinic for tuberculosis patients, and it continues to house a medical facility today, so it is not generally open to visitors. The wider Muradiye Complex was inscribed in 2014 as one of six component sites of the UNESCO World Heritage listing "Bursa and Cumalıkızık: The Birth of an Ottoman Empire."