The Emir Sultan Mosque stands on a hill on the skirts of Uludağ, east of Bursa. It was built at the beginning of the fifteenth century by Hundi Hatun, daughter of Bayezid I and wife of Emir Sultan, after her husband's death. The mosque measures 15.20 by 15.20 metres, its walls laid in cut stone and brick, with two cut-stone minarets at the northeast and northwest corners, and a single dome resting on an octagonal drum. The Ministry's account of the mihrab carries both facts as it finds them: that it was decorated with seventeenth-century İznik tiles, and that in the course of later repairs it was rebuilt in marble; it is flanked by columns with Corinthian capitals.
You reach the courtyard by climbing the stairs on the west and passing through the doorway between two columns. The courtyard is enclosed by an arcade carried on sixteen marble piers linked to one another by wooden arches, with an ablution fountain at its centre, the mosque on the south side, and the tomb and wooden rooms on the north. The mosque is where Emir Sultan Caddesi meets Doyuran Caddesi, served by buses from central Bursa.
Getting there
- Access
- Buses run to the Emir Sultan neighbourhood from central Bursa. The mosque stands where Emir Sultan Caddesi meets Doyuran Caddesi.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Bursa as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 5.4 °C in January to 24.6 °C in July; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June, July, August, September and October; rainfall is heaviest in December (99 mm) and lightest in August (18 mm). Long-term means for 1927-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
