Musa Çelebi, son of Yıldırım Beyazıt Han, started the construction of the mosque in 1410.. The building whose foundation was laid in 1937 after 27 years (I. It was completed in 1447 by Murat Han II, son of Mehmet Çelebi.. The architect of the mosque; One of the famous of that period is the paralyzed Architect Muslihiddin.
The first name of the mosque is II. It was Muradiye because Murat had it built.. Later, its name was changed to Yeni Mosque and then it started to be called Üç Şerefeli Mosque because of its public honor.
Üç Şerefeli Mosque It is one of the first examples of the transition from Seljuk architecture to Ottoman architecture, and it is the first 3 Honorable Mosque in Edirne. The minaret with balconies is in this mosque. Among the mosques in Edirne, this is the mosque with the first courtyard.
Minarets
It is the first application with its four minarets, each of which has different sizes, widths and transition elements, placed all around the fountain courtyard.
The first of these is the one with three balconies, which gives the mosque its name.. This minaret can be reached from three different ways.. This application is encountered for the first time here.
I.path 1 and 3. to the cheers
II.Road 2 and 3. cheers
III. road is only 3. it rises to the balconies.
The minaret is 81 meters high.
Two Honors 2. The minaret has a lozenge motif and is two-way.
Dome
This Together with the mosque, the multi-domed structure was transformed into a single and central domed structure.. The large dome with a diameter of 24 meters in the middle of the mosque; Two of them are free and four of them are carried by six pillars (feet) inside the walls.. The main dome is supported by other domes on the sides. This central dome is the largest dome ever built.. The mosque has a total of 9 domes.
Harem Courtyard with Domes and Portico
This type of domed and portico harem courtyard was applied for the first time in the mosque with three balconies.. It has 22 domes.. This model set an example for later mosques.
Three Honorable Mosque Cemetery
In the cemetery in the direction of the mosque’s qibla; There are prominent people of that period (1666-1875).. There are 195 tombstones in the cemetery.
This graveyard is one of our graveyards that has survived from the Ottoman era.
Edirne While the Üç Şerefeli Mosque combined a number of elements that had been applied one by one in different buildings in the past with a new understanding within itself, it also created a beginning for the Ottoman architectural understanding that became more and more classical after it.