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The Tuzcuzade Mosque gives its name to one of the old neighborhoods of Bayburt, a town in Turkey's northeastern Black Sea hinterland. The name combines 'tuzcu,' meaning salt…
Yakutiye Mosque stands in the center of Bayburt, a city in Turkey's Black Sea highlands, and was completed in 1915 through a building effort organized by the local community…
The Veysel Efendi Mosque lends its name to one of Bayburt's historic neighborhoods, in the town's old center beneath its hilltop citadel in northeastern Turkey. 'Efendi' was an…
The Karasakal Mosque gives its name to another of Bayburt's old town quarters, clustered near the foot of the city's historic fortress in northeastern Turkey. 'Karasakal'…
Hatibiye Medresesi is a former Islamic school built in the Seljuk architectural style in the old center of Bitlis, in eastern Turkey, standing close to the historic Alemdar…
Bitlis Şerefiye Medresesi forms part of the Şerefiye complex built in 1529 by Şeref Han, a local ruling bey associated with the Ottoman court of Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent.…
Alemdar Mosque stands in the Muştakbaba neighborhood of Bitlis, in eastern Turkey, set beside one of the small streams that run through the old town. The mosque complex is known…
Bitlis Şerefiye Mosque was built in 1529 by Şeref Han, the ruler of the local Şerefhan principality that governed Bitlis under Ottoman suzerainty. It is counted among the "five…
Meydan Mosque was built between about 1520 and 1530 by the Şerefhan rulers of Bitlis, in eastern Turkey, and takes its name from its role as a mosque facing the town's open…
Gökmeydan Mosque is one of the historic mosques of Bitlis in eastern Turkey, grouped locally among the city's "five minarets," though the exact date of its original Ottoman-era…
The Yıldırım Bayezid Mosque in Mudurnu was built around 1382, while the future Sultan Bayezid I was still a provincial prince, as the centerpiece of a small külliye that also…
The Beyazıt Mosque in central Bolu, also known locally as the Yıldırım Beyazıt Mosque, traces its origin to a structure built in 1389 under Yıldırım Bayezid as part of an early…
The Kadı Mosque is one of the historic neighborhood mosques in the old center of Bolu, near the city's main bazaar street. Local historical accounts attribute its founding to…
The İmaret Mosque, also known locally as the Şemsi Ahmet Paşa Mosque, stands in central Bolu and, according to endowment records, was built in the 16th century by Şemsi Ahmet…
Yukarı Taşhan, the Upper Stone Inn, is a historic Ottoman caravanserai in the old commercial quarter of Bolu, built in 1804 by Hacı Abdullah Ağa, a local notable who held the…
The Ali Pasha Mosque stands on Eski Sokak in Bursa's Alipaşa neighborhood and was founded by Çandarlı Ali Pasha, who served as grand vizier under Sultan Yıldırım Bayezid. Its…
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…
Known historically as the Hoca Yakup Darülkurrası or Yer Kapı Muallimhanesi, this building in Bursa was constructed in 1492 by a scholar named Hoca Yakup as a dedicated school…
The Haraççıoğlu Madrasa stands in the Kavaklı neighborhood of Bursa's Osmangazi district and began in the eighteenth century as a tekke, a dervish lodge of the Naqshbandi Sufi…
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…
The İvaz Paşa Mosque in Bursa belongs to the pious endowment of Hacı İvaz Paşa, the architect responsible for the city's celebrated Green Mosque and Green Tomb, who served as a…
Hasanbey Mosque stands in the neighborhood that bears its name in Mudanya, a coastal district of Bursa province, and dates to the mid-seventeenth century. A nine-line inscription…
This memorial stands at the pier square of Mudanya, the Sea of Marmara port town in Bursa province, and honors Şükrü Çavuş, a sergeant remembered as the man who fired the opening…
Also recorded as the Kurşunlu Mosque after the village where it stands in İnegöl district, this early Ottoman mosque lacks a surviving foundation inscription, so its exact date…