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The tomb of Yıldırım Bayezid, one of the important sultans of Ottoman history, is located within the Yıldırım Külliyesi in Bursa. Bayezid, who died in 1402 after the Battle of Ankara, was initially buried in Akşehir and later reinterred in Bursa by his son Musa Çelebi in the tomb as it stands today. The tomb was commissioned in 1406 by Bayezid’s eldest son Emir Süleyman Çelebi and constructed by the architect Ali, son of Hüseyin. It is regarded as the first of the revaklı türbeler (covered porti