Orhan reburies his father Osman in Bursa

أورخان يعيد دفن أبيه عثمان في بورصة

c. 1326 CE · 726 AH

Bursa

Osman Gazi died at Söğüt about two years before the conquest; after entering Bursa his son Orhan reburied him in what had been the baptistry of the church of St. Elias the Prophet ﷺ, converted into a mosque after the conquest 1.

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Era
The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
Anatolia

In time

1310132013301340 c.
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era

In space

Bursa

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Overview

Osman Gazi died at Söğüt about two years before the conquest; his son Orhan had him carried to Bursa and reburied there. 1

The first tomb

Orhan reburied his father in what had been the baptistry of the church of St. Elias the Prophet, converted into a mosque after the conquest; when Orhan himself died he too was buried beside his father rather than in his own külliye. 1

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Occurred at
Bursa
Had participant
عثمان بن أرطغرل
During the reign of
al-Mustakfi I

People and things also explored

Conquest of Bursa· Orhan Gazi Mosque begun in Bursa· عثمان بن أرطغرل· Bursa· Yesil Mosque, Bursa· Al-Dhahabi composes Tarikh al-Islam and his great compilations, c. 730/1330· Al-Dhahabi, professor of hadith at Umm al-Salih and al-Nafisiyya, c. 710/1310· Shaykh of the Ashrafiyya and Nuriyya hadith schools, Damascus, 17 Rabi' I 740

Sources

  1. John Freely, A History of Ottoman Architecture (2011) , p. 36-37
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Conquest of Bursa

The Ottomans blockaded Bursa for many years — al-Salabi has Osman taking it in 717/1317 after a hard struggle with its commander — until the starved city surrendered on 2 Jumada I 726/6 April 1326 and paid a heavy tribute; the Byzantine commander was allowed to leave for Constantinople while his chief adviser, responsible for the surrender, stayed with the Ottomans. Bursa then served as the main capital of the Ottoman state from 726/1326 to 805/1402.