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The date the Orhan Gazi Mosque in Bilecik was first built is not established, though it is thought to have been raised at the beginning of the fourteenth century along with Orhan Gazi's other works. It holds 365 worshippers and was repaired and restored in 1973, having undergone a significant repair in the reign of Abdülhamid II.
It stands fifty metres from the tomb of Şeyh Edebali, and its oddity is the minaret. Minarets are normally attached to the mosque; here the original minaret was built on a rock thirty metres away from the main building. The mosque is described as the first attempt at a domed building in the religious architecture of the Ottoman period, and because the dome was covered with lead during restoration it is also known as the Kurşunlu, the leaded, mosque. It is on A. Refik Öztürk Caddesi in the İstiklal quarter, beside the tomb.
