Koza Han

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Part of site	Market neighborhood
Variant Names	Koza Hani
Street Address	Between Uzun Çarsi Street and Orhan Gazi square Çarsi (market area)
Location	Bursa, Turkey
Client	Bayezid II
Date	1481-1512 or 1490
Style/Period	Ottoman
Century	15th
Building Type	commercial
Building Usage	khan
Keywords	777 core monuments

Notes

The Koza (Cocoon) Han was commissioned by Bayezid II and built in 1490 in the market neighborhood between Ulu Cami and Orhaniye, to provide income for the sultan's mosque in Istanbul. The han has two stories of rooms with galleries around a courtyard. A classical Ottoman mescid stands on eight piers in the center of the courtyard clear of the path of pack-animals, with an octagonal ablution basin underneath. The cells around a smaller courtyard to the east of the han contain the stables and storage rooms. Koza Han remains a lively commercial center to date. Sources: Baykal, Kazim. 1992. Bursa ve Anitlari. Istanbul: Türkiye Anit Çevre Turizm Degerlerini Koruma Vakfi. Goodwin, Godfrey. 1997. A History of Ottoman Architecture. London: Thames and Hudson. Gabriel, Albert. 1958. Une Capitale Turque, Brousse, Bursa. Paris, E. de Boccard.