The Orhangazi tomb at Bursa holds Orhan, son of Osman Gazi and the second Ottoman sultan, who lived from 1281 to 1362. In his reign he took Bursa and the country around it from the Byzantines, built the machinery of the state and struck the first Ottoman coin.
His tomb stands in Tophane Park in the Hisar quarter, directly opposite the tomb of Osman Gazi, and it was built over part of the monastery of Saint Elias, which served as the city's metropolitan monastery before the conquest. It sits on that monastery's floor mosaics, on a square plan.
Getting there
- Access
- On Osmangazi Caddesi in Tophane, within walking distance; public transport also serves it.
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).
