The Muradiye Mosque, built around 1435 for Sultan Murad II, is one of Edirne's lesser-visited but most satisfying monuments. Set slightly apart from the main cluster of Ottoman buildings, on a quieter street north of the Selimiye, it combines an unusual T-shaped floor plan — characteristic of early Anatolian Ottoman architecture — with some of the finest Iznik tiles in Edirne. The interior dome rests on elegant pendentives, and the walls below the tile zone are covered in painted arabesque designs in green and red that have survived in good condition.
The tiles here pre-date the classic blue-and-white Iznik style of the later sixteenth century. The early fifteenth-century production used darker blues, teals, and a distinctive deep green alongside black outlines, and the Muradiye preserves a rare and complete example of this earlier tradition. The mosque is smaller than the city's major monuments and attracts far fewer visitors, which makes it easier to look properly at the tile panels without crowds. The garden around it is planted with old trees that give the building a pleasant, somewhat secluded atmosphere.