Mosques & Muslim traveller notes

Built for Sultan Bayezid I in 1396–1399, with 20 domes on 12 pillars, an ablution fountain under a glazed dome inside the prayer hall and 192 great wall inscriptions by Ottoman calligraphers.

Mehmed I’s mosque, finished around 1420, named for the green and blue tiles that line its interior.

Mehmed I’s tomb of 1421, wrapped in turquoise tiles among cypresses across from the Green Mosque. Inside, the tiled mihrab is decorated with roses, carnations and hyacinths.

A much-loved mosque and tomb complex for the Bukharan scholar Emir Sultan, rebuilt in Ottoman Baroque style in the 19th century, on a hillside east of the centre.

Murad II’s mosque of 1426 with twelve tombs in a quiet garden; part of the UNESCO site.

A small octagonal prayer room raised on eight pillars in the middle of the silk han, with an ablution fountain beneath. Pray in the heart of the market.