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Bursa Grand Mosque (Ulu Camii)

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Ulu Camii

The Ulu Camii was built between 1396 and 1399, it is the largest mosque in Bursa and an example of original Ottoman architecture. What makes it different from other mosques I have visited, is that inside there is a fountain where worshipers wash before prayers (the dome that rises above the fountain is crowned with a skylight, which reflects light from the fountain and which helps to illuminate the interior of the mosque). The temple has two minarets and twenty domes as in all twenty mosques which Sultan Bayezid I promised to build. Inside, there are 192 inscriptions on the walls, each one written

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