The other great mosque in Edirne is the striking Beyazit Cami (Beyazit Mosque), on the outskirts of the city across the Tunca River. The immense complex is about a 20-minute walk (or take a dolmus from the square) northwest from Hürriyet Meydani via the fine-hewn, six-arched Beyazit Bridge, which, along with the mosque, dates from the 1480s. The mosque was built by the Sultan Beyazit, at the end of the 15th century, and the complex includes the mosque itself—with a remarkable indented dome and a beautifully fretted mihrab—as well as two schools, a hospital, a kitchen, and storage depots. In recent years the complex has been renovated, and it now has permanent exhibitions in the hospital section, with mannequins in period costumes to re-create the different forms of treatment for patients in Ottoman times. One section was used as an insane asylum where live musicians performed for the patients as part of their treatment. The lovely courtyard has benches and tables set in a neatly tended garden.
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