Şehzadeler Tomb

Construction Year: 1580

Ordered by: Sultan Murad III

Architect: Mimar Sinan

Prominent Features:

• Octagonal exterior with a square interior; the floor is covered with hexagonal bricks.
• Built of cut küfeki stone and covered with a dome.
• The wooden main entrance door is decorated with interlaced geometric laths.
• Interior walls lack tiles and calligraphy, but feature 19th-century black-and-white floral and ribbon-themed painted decorations.
• During the 2006 restoration, original rumi-patterned malakari decorations above the windows, 16th-century tomb coverings (puşide), prince garments, and fragments of the Kiswa (Kaaba cover) were revealed.
• The tomb houses five sarcophagi and is notably modest compared to the other türbes in the Hagia Sophia complex.