Bursa

After Canakkale, we headed to an inland city called Bursa. Bursa was the original capital of the Ottoman empire, so it had many mosques and other interesting historical buildings. We visited two Mosques in Bursa that were in many aspects different to other mosques we have seen. The Great Mosque, so called because it is the biggest in Bursa, was more simply decorated than most mosques, yet the natural light falling on tile fountain in the middle gave it all the grandeur of any other. The thing that stood out the most about the Great Mosque was the relatively large number of women praying there. The Green Mosque, so called because the inside is almost entirely green tiles, reminded me more of a church than a mosque in that it contained one main prayer area with several smaller prayer areas to the sides, like chapels.