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Built in 1435-1436 by Sultan Murad II in Edirne, the Muradiye Mosque is a small early Ottoman structure best known for its exquisite tilework. Originally part of a Mevlevi dervish complex, it features a T-shaped layout with a domed entrance and a single minaret (rebuilt in 1957).
The prayer hall is decorated with a striking frieze of blue-and-white hexagonal tiles influenced by Chinese porcelain, and a large polychrome tiled mihrab with intricate cuerda seca inscriptions in naskh and Kufic scripts. The tiles are attributed to the famed Masters of Tabriz, who also worked on similar projects in Bursa and Edirne. These are the earliest examples of underglaze-painted and fritware tiles in Ottoman art.
References:The Pilgrimage Church of Wies (Wieskirche) is an oval rococo church, designed in the late 1740s by Dominikus Zimmermann. It is located in the foothills of the Alps in the municipality of Steingaden.
The sanctuary of Wies is a pilgrimage church extraordinarily well-preserved in the beautiful setting of an Alpine valley, and is a perfect masterpiece of Rococo art and creative genius, as well as an exceptional testimony to a civilization that has disappeared.
The hamlet of Wies, in 1738, is said to have been the setting of a miracle in which tears were seen on a simple wooden figure of Christ mounted on a column that was no longer venerated by the Premonstratensian monks of the Abbey. A wooden chapel constructed in the fields housed the miraculous statue for some time. However, pilgrims from Germany, Austria, Bohemia, and even Italy became so numerous that the Abbot of the Premonstratensians of Steingaden decided to construct a splendid sanctuary.