It is located to the south of Boyacı Kulülü Bridge. This stone bridge, which was the only arasta bridge of the Ottomans, II. It is believed that it was built by the merchant Hodja Muslihuddin, son of Irgandı Ali, in 1442, during the reign of Murad II, by Timurtaş, son of Abdullah, whom Hacı İvaz Pasha had witnessed in his charter. In the Travelogue of Evliya Çelebi, who came to Bursa in 1640 after the Celali riots, it is stated that there were 200 shops on the bridge, but in reality, 32 shops, 16 on both sides, were built on the bridge, one of which was at the northeast end of the mosque, and the only bridge carrying the bridge. It is known that there are stables and warehouses on both sides of the arch.
The wooden construction on the roofs of the shops of the Irgandı Bridge, whose original walls were made of masonry, was plastered with lye and covered with lead, but later in the 17th century, after the bullets fell, the roof was tiled. Various sources state that the two ends of the bridge bazaar were closed at night with large iron gates. It was partially destroyed in a flood in the 18th century and was damaged in the earthquake of 1855. The bazaar on the bridge, which was destroyed in 1855, became an open bazaar in the second half of the 19th century, where wooden shops of various sizes, each resembling a residence, were lined up side by side. Irgandı Bridge, which was destroyed by dynamite during the War of Independence in 1922, while the occupation forces were leaving Bursa, was repaired as reinforced concrete in 1949 without a shop. Attempts on the restoration of the bridge started in 1988 and the reconstruction of the bridge was completed in 2004 in accordance with the second restitution phase.
Source: Bursa Provincial Directorate of Culture and Tourism
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