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Murad II founds the Muradiye at Edirne

مراد الثاني يؤسس جامع المرادية بأدرنة

1435 CE · c. 838 AH

Edirne

Murad II founded Edirne's Muradiye in 1435, at first as a house for Mevlevi dervishes; a smaller mevlevihane was built beside it when the main building was turned into a mosque, distinguished by the tile revetments covering the mihrab and part of the walls 1 2.

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Era
The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
Anatolia

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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era

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Edirne

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Overview

Murad II founded Edirne's Muradiye in 1435, first as a hospice for Mevlevi dervishes, then converted it into a mosque late in his reign 1.

From dervish house to mosque

The mosque is famed for the tile revetments of its mihrab, among the finest surviving early fifteenth-century Iznik tiles, with a smaller mevlevihane beside it for the dervishes 1 2.

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Occurred at
Muradiye Mosque, Edirne· Edirne
Had participant
Murad II
During the reign of
al-Mu'tadid bi-llah Dawud ibn al-Mutawakkil

People and things also explored

Conquest of Thessalonica· Murad II dies at Edirne· The Muradiye külliye at Bursa· Edirne's New Imperial Palace is built· Siege of Constantinople (1422)· Edirne's Üç Şerefeli Mosque is built· السلطان محمد الفاتح· Mehmed I Çelebi

Sources

  1. John Freely, A History of Ottoman Architecture (2011) , p. 68
  2. Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 2 p. 712
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islam.museum contributors. “Murad II founds the Muradiye at Edirne”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/muradiye-edirne-839/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-09.

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Conquest of Thessalonica

Thessalonica — after crushing the pretenders Manuel II had backed, Murad II moved on the city and stormed it in March 833/1431, making it permanently Ottoman in al-Sallabi's account.