Guide
The tomb stands in front of the mihrab of the Sultan Selim Mosque, on the hill above the Golden Horn where Süleyman the Magnificent had the complex built in his father's name. It is octagonal in plan under a single dome.
Tile panels flank both sides of the entrance; the one on the right carries an inscription dated 1523. Inside, the frame of the sarcophagus is inlaid with mother-of-pearl, and over the sarcophagus lies the kaftan that Selim I is said to have willed as its cover — the one stained with mud thrown up by his teacher's horse on the road to the Egyptian campaign.
Two further tombs stand in the same courtyard: the hexagonal tomb of the princes, where Süleyman's sons Mahmud and Abdullah and his daughters Güherhan and Hüma Şah are buried, and the plain domed tomb of Sultan Abdülmecid, who died in 1861.
