Çelebi Sultan Mehmed Mosque
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The Çelebi Sultan Mehmed Mosque, also known as the Bayezid Mosque and the Great Mosque, is a former mosque in Didymoteicho, in the East Macedonia and Thrace region, in the far northeast of Greece. The
The former mosque in 2010
The inner wooden roof with the interior dome
The main entrance of the mosque
Mehmed I
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Mehmed I, also known as Mehmed Çelebi or Kirişçi, was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1413 to 1421. Son of Sultan Bayezid I and his concubine Devlet Hatun, he fought with his brothers over contr
Çelebi Sultan Mehmed Mosque
…1389–1402), but after his death at the Battle of Ankara and the turmoil that followed, it was interrupted. Construction was taken up again under Sultan Mehmed I (r. 1413–1421), and the mosque was completed and inaugurated in March 1420, as recorded in the inscription above the main entrance. A second inscription…
Miniature of Mehmed I from a 16th century manuscript
Mehmed I with his dignitaries. Ottoman miniature painting, kept at Istanbul University.
His mausoleum, Green Tomb, in Bursa