The Sultan Murad Türbe, also referred to as Meşhed-i Hüdavendigar, roughly "place where the ruler [Murad I] fell as a martyr", is the first Ottoman structure to be built in present-day Kosovo.
Murad I was killed in 1389 during the Ottoman campaign against Serbia at the Battle of the Blackbird Field by Serbian knight and nobleman Miloš Obilić. Before the sultan's body could be transported to Bursa, its internal organs were removed and buried in the türbe on the battlefield. The sultan's body is kept in a türbe erected in Çekirge, a suburb of Bursa.
The Sultan Murad Türbe is located in the village of Mazgit, about 10 kilometers from Pristina. Sultan Abdülhamid II had the building restored in 1896 and a guest house built for overnight stays. In 1911, Sultan Mehmed V visited the Türbe as part of a trip to the Balkans and prayed with 100,000 Muslims in the field.
In 2005, the Turkish state had the building restored by means of the Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı. Diyanet, is a government agency for the administration of religious affairs in Turkey. The Diyanet reports directly to the President. In 2015, the authority had more than 100,000 employees and an annual budget equivalent to more than one billion euros.
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