Sinan the Architect had the materials to be used in the construction of Selimiye collected and disappeared for two years. Then the journeymen came to the sultan and told him that Mimar Sinan was getting too old, that he could not build a mosque in the desired shape, that he was running away from starting construction for this reason, and that the construction of the mosque should be handed over to them. The Sultan immediately sent Mimar Sinan
to find him:
- Mimarbaşı, you will be gossiped about in the palace, I will build a mosque in Edirne.
They say that you cannot build, what do you say about it, he asked. Sinan:
- Sir, if I start building the mosque right away, the foundation will not settle and
cracks, fractures. The mosque will not be strong, he said. When he heard these rumors that he had heard since long ago from the sultan's mouth
Mimar Sinan, who was getting more and more resentful, said to the architects who slandered him to teach them a lesson in order to put an end to the rumors:
- "If you are skillful enough to build this mosque, as you claim, you should have built three mosques.
you put one egg on top of the other. If you can't, then shut up. I'll leave it to
Leave it.

Upon these words, they had a table and three eggs brought to the center. Sinan told the other architects to put these eggs on top of each other. They turned them over and over, and none of them could make sense of it, and they agreed that it was Sinan's right to build the mosque. However, they wondered how to stack the eggs on top of each other and asked Sinan. Sinan took out three rings and put the rings between the two eggs, one on the table, and stopped the eggs on top of each other.
(Mehmet Ali Başpınar, Edirne, 06.05.2012)

A group of journeymen were saying at every opportunity that Sinan was getting too old and it was time for him to step down as chief architect. These rumors reached Mimar Sinan's ears. So Mimar Sinan gathered the journeymen around him and said to them:
- "Well, we are old now, there is no strength left in our wrists, no freshness left in our minds.
You are young, wise and strong. Until we bring the construction of the mosque here
We're pretty tired. Let's share the building activities from now on. Two of the minarets
and I'll do both of them.

The journeymen laughed slyly on the inside. They thought it was time to show themselves to the sultan. They immediately set to work. After a while, Mimar Sinan built the two minarets on the courtyard side and the journeymen built the two minarets on the qibla side. The journeymen were talking among themselves, "We built the same minaret as Sinan's minaret, it is no different from ours". But there was a detail they missed. The minarets built by Mimar Sinan had three stairs.
When they saw this, they all became speechless and acknowledged Sinan's mastery.

This was the reason why only two minarets of Selimiye were three-way, why the minarets were the same in width, length and diameter, but the embroidery and patterns of the front and back minarets were different, and why the grooves of the front minarets were inside and the sets of the back minarets were outside.

(Mehmet Ali Başpınar, Edirne, 06.05.2012)

According to the legend, on the morning of the day Selimiye was finished, all the workers and enthusiasts who had contributed to Selimiye took a look at Selimiye with Sinan the Architect by their side. While everyone was making compliments, Sinan the Architect picked out a little boy from the crowd and asked him.

-Did you like the mosque?

The boy narrowed his eyes and looked around the mosque for a while, then fixed his gaze on one of the four minarets. After examining the minaret from bottom to top, he said that the minaret was crooked. While everyone was wondering what Mimar Sinan would do, Mimar Sinan immediately called his foreman and asked him to take the thick rope of the pulley, climb up to the third balcony, tie one end of the rope to the balcony and let the other end down. The foreman climbed to the third balcony to fulfill this order, which he could not make sense of, and swung the rope down, and this time Mimar Sinan ordered the workers to grab the end of the rope and pull it.

While the workers were pulling the rope attached to the minaret in amazement, Sinan was asking the boy whether the minaret was fixed or not. One or two more times the boy said that the minaret was crooked, but finally he was convinced that the minaret was fixed and left. The curious people suddenly surrounded Sinan and asked him:
- "Sir, you knew that the minaret was straight, even though it is like this.
They asked him why he did this and that. Mimar Sinan:
- Yes, I also knew that the minaret was flat, but the Selimiye
I can't allow it to be tainted even in the eyes of a child.
If I had not built it, this minaret would be known as leaning until doomsday.

By having the minaret towed, he said, maybe not the minaret, but I corrected people's beliefs.

(SalihaDervişoğlu, Edirne, 12.02.2015)

When the Selimiye Mosque was finished and the cones of the minarets were to be placed in their places, Sinan the Architect climbed the last minaret. He attached the realm to the cone and placed the cone in its place. While the journeymen and craftsmen below were curiously waiting for the work to be finished and Selimiye to be completed, they saw what they saw; Sinan the Architect was flying like a bird. When he reached Hıdırlık hill, he dropped his chisel, when he reached Darü'l Hadith Mosque, he dropped his arrow and it stuck in the minaret of the mosque.

Even until recently, there was an iron nailed to the minaret and it was believed to be Sinan's arrow. After a while, he reached Muhiddin Baba in Hacıdanişment and dropped his trowel. He did this to indicate that these were important places.
(Orhan Çakırlar, Edirne, 11.09.2014)

Sultan Selim II vowed that if Cyprus was conquered, he would build a unique mosque with the spoils from Cyprus, but in time he forgot this vow. Cyprus was conquered, but no attempt was made to build a mosque. One night as he was falling asleep, Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) entered his dream and said:

- O Selim, you had made a vow to Allah that if I became the conqueror of the island of Cyprus, I would build a large mosque from the wealth of the expedition. Now that Allah has given you what you wanted, why don't you fulfill your promise and spend the rest of your life doing good deeds. Immediately ask your vizier for the spoils taken from Cyprus, have a mosque built in Edirne, the wall of Islam, which is under my protection, and come to the foot of my banner.
Selim II woke up from his sleep in a terrified state and immediately asked his vizier
orders him to be summoned to his presence. When the vizier arrived, Sultan Selim said to him:
- "Lala, quickly give me the spoils of your expedition," the vizier said:
- Saddaktu yâ Rasulallah. Selim II asks the vizier why he said that. The vizier said:
- My Sultan, I saw the Prophet in my dream last night and he addressed me: "Give your booty to Selim. Go to Edirne together and build a very nice temple." So I prepared all the booty, he said and handed it over to the Sultan. (İlker Tosun, Edirne, 14.06.2014)

Before Selimiye was built, the sultan took one of his viziers and went to a village in Edirne. The rich people of the village welcomed the sultan. The sultan ordered the village shepherd to be found. The rich people started whispering among themselves, "What business does the sultan have with the shepherd?"
When the shepherd arrived, the sultan told him:
- I am going to build a mosque and I want you to draw the plan. Everyone was surprised. They thought the sultan had lost his mind for a moment. The shepherd said to this offer:
- Sure, I will draw it, but there is no one to take care of my sheep. You hold this stick in your hand but do not put it down and I will draw it and bring it back.
The villagers said, "How could he give his stick to the sultan? This is shameful. The shepherd is making the sultan herd the sheep of the village!" But the sultan held the stick and waited. In the meantime, the sheep reached the lush wheat fields and returned without touching them. Finally, the friend of God, who was thought to be a shepherd, came with plans in his hand just as the sultan's arm was getting tired and he was about to let go of the stick. In other words, the plan of Selimiye was drawn with a miracle in the time that a person can hold an object in the air.

(Ahmet Çumir, Büyükdöllük, 15.04.2015)

After Sultan Selim II was warned by Prophet Muhammad (SAW) in a dream, he went to Edirne with his soldiers. While he was asleep one night in Edirne, he saw the Prophet Muhammad (SAW) in his dream. Prophet Muhammad (SAW) said:

- O Selim, build the mosque in this Kavak Square, and personally described where the foundations of the mosque would be placed and which way its qibla would be.

Since the creation of the world, no building has ever been built where SeSelimiye is located. Therefore, human beings have never inhabited this place. And because people have never inhabited this place, no sin has ever been committed on this place.

Before Selimiye was built, people had tulip gardens of two or three meters each. People used to come here to grow their tulips and when they grew, they would pick them and leave. This area was used only during the tulip season and remained empty at other times.

(Şaban Öztürk, Edirne, 06.05.2012)

Bosnavi Ahmet Aga, the barber of Sultan Mahmut II and one of the Hassa Aghas, had a wound on his head that would not heal as a child. His mother, who could not get any results from medical and surgical remedies, took him by the hand one day and took him to the Sultan Selim Mosque and opened the wound in front of the fountain under the mahfel.

She took the wick out of the wound, washed and cleaned the inside and around the wound with the water from the fountain, wrapped the wound and spent the night like that. When he opened his eyes the next day, he saw that nothing was left. (Sönmez, 1988: 115)

While the foundation of Selimiye was being laid, Selim II called Mimar Sinan to his side and gave him a gold coin without saying anything. Mimar Sinan took this gold without saying anything and put it in his shirt pocket. Although those who saw this incident were very curious, they could not make sense of it and could not ask why. Years passed and it was time for Selimiye to be opened. This time, Sinan the Architect was standing next to Mustafa III instead of Selim II, who had passed away. Just as the opening was about to take place, Sinan the Architect took the gold he had received six years ago out of his shirt pocket and gave it to Mustafa III. The curiosity of those who had witnessed a similar incident six years ago was piqued and they could not stand it and asked Sinan the reason for this. Sinan said:

- Sultan, when he gave me that gold, Sinan wanted to say in his own language that he wanted to build such a temple that there would be no opening in any part of it, not even enough for this gold to pass through, so that it would be very strong and last until the end of time. That gold was a measuring material for me. Years passed and when I built a mosque in accordance with that will, I gave it back to our sultan." (Şaban Öztürk, Edirne, 06.05.2012)

Due to the earthquake that occurred on the night the Prophet was born, the palace of Kisra, the Kizilelma and the dome of Hagia Sophia collapsed. After they remained in ruins for a while, three hundred monks residing in Bursa, led by the priest Bahira, went to Mecca with the reminder of Hızır (a.s). They took some saliva from the mouth of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), who was a young boy at the time, and drew the shape of his blessed hands. The priests took some of the Meccan soil and came to Istanbul and repaired the dome of the Hagia Sophia.

Years later, when Sinan the Architect was building the dome of Selimiye, he scraped an okka of lime from the dome of Hagia Sophia, which had been repaired with the spit of Prophet Muhammad (SAW), and mixed it with the lime of the dome of Selimiye, so that the dome would be eternal. Therefore, it is believed that the dome of Selimiye will stand forever (Evliya Çelebi, 2010: 571).

During the days when the construction of the Selimiye Mosque was going on, Selim II, who had the mosque built, dressed in disguise and mingled with the workers. He witnessed that some of the workers were devoted to their work, while others were not fully committed.
In the evening, when the wages were distributed, he saw that all the workers were given the same amount of money and told Mimar Sinan that some of the workers were working hard and some of them were slacking, and he ordered that instead of handing out the wages, the amount of money to be received by the workers should be put in chests and everyone should take it himself.

Mimar Sinan put the money in the chests according to the sultan's order and told the workers to take their wages. When it was seen that there was a lot of money left in the chest after all the workers received their wages that day, Mimar Sinan asked those who received less wages to gather and asked them why they received less wages. All of the workers said that the money given for the construction of the mosque came out of the state treasury and that they could not take the money they did not deserve because it was the right of unborn orphans.

Selim II, who witnessed this moment in disguise, then said:

-With this faith in our nation, with such workers building our mosque, I hope this mosque will stand until doomsday.

(Mehmet Ali Başpınar, Edirne, 06.05.2012)

When the construction of the Selimiye Mosque began, a chest of money was placed right in the center. As the construction of the mosque continued, everyone was asked to work and take as much as they deserved. Years later, when the construction of the mosque was finished, only five gold coins were left in the chest. The last people to take it were the masons who installed the door of the mosque. When the last work was finished, there was no money left in the chest. Sinan the Architect calculated the work that would last for years and created an extraordinary situation. The workers made this calculation right by never stooping to money they did not deserve. Because it was built in such an equitable way, there is a belief that Selimiye will last until doomsday.

(İbrahim Gökçen, Edirne, 10.05.2012)

While the Selimiye Mosque was under construction, a rumor spread that Sinan was smoking a hookah in the mihrab. The rumor reaches the Sultan. Although Selim II, the founder of the mosque and the sultan of the time, did not want to believe these rumors, one day he suddenly showed up at the construction site and saw that Sinan was indeed smoking a hookah on the altar.

- The chief architect said, "Can you smoke hookah in a mosque, you wouldn't have done this, what is this?
He asks what is the wisdom of this. Sinan:

- Sultan, pay attention, there is no tobacco in my hookah. I only control the distribution of the sound generated by the rattling of the water in the mosque. In this way, I regulate the sound distribution in the mosque and ensure that the sound reaches up to 60-70 meters, in other words, I try to regulate its acoustics. (Yusuf Enes Özmen, Edirne, 09.07.2015)

After Sinan the Architect finished Selimiye, he set out to watch the mosque from the direction of the Palace Baths and Saathane. After looking for a while, he realized that the dome was too big and that he had made a mistake by making the mosque with a single dome. Then one of the journeymen came to him at a moment when he was deep in thought about how to make the dome more beautiful:

- "Sir, why are you so preoccupied?
- When I was building the dome of the mosque, I was eager to make it bigger than Hagia Sophia and I built a very big dome, but now I can't make the dome fit the mosque:

- Sir, this dome stands on eight pillars, if these pillars
If we build cells covered with a small dome between them, the ugliness of this dome will disappear.
he would get up, he said.
So they immediately drew the shape of the mosque as the journeyman had said. Indeed, the mosque looked completely different in this shape. They immediately built the domes. According to the belief, the small domes were the work of the journeyman.

(Sönmez, 1988: 121-122)

When Murat II's army arrived in front of Edirne, he had the city under siege, and in order to show the people in the castle of Edirne that the Turks were too many and to instill fear in them, he had fires, large and small, lit around the castle. The inhabitants of the castle, who already had no strength to fight, looked around the castle and started to think about what to do. One of them said:
- Let us fight to the last drop of our blood. But the others
knowing that war is a losing proposition. Someone else said:
- Let's flee to an ally who can protect us. But this was not possible because the castle was surrounded by Turkish soldiers. Finally, a man who had been listening to what they had been saying all along:
- It is impossible to fight or flee. If we fight, we will die, if we run away, we will be left without property and we will die again. I have heard that Turks are a brave people. The other day, as I was returning from my vineyard at the foot of the castle, I saw gold coins tied to vines in my vineyard.
I've seen it. The Turks may have done it for the grapes they ate, but we can't be sure. We'd better test their bravery. If they are as they say, let us surrender to them, and our lives and property will be safe. Everyone welcomed this idea, and this time they began to think about how to test them. Again one of them said:
- The greatest weakness of an army of men is women. Beautiful
and let our daughters go among them with their instruments. If we do something bad to our girls
if they don't, they won't do us any harm. We will surrender the castle, he said. The others said
and they liked the idea.
The next day, forty Byzantine girls, half-naked and carrying their instruments, headed towards the Turkish soldiers. When the Turkish soldiers saw the girls, they immediately became alert, thinking it might be a trap, but when the girls came a little closer and saw that they had nothing but their instruments in their hands, they all turned their faces away to avoid looking into the privacy. The soldiers in the area where the girls passed by did not even look back, let alone say a bad word, let alone do anything bad. Seeing this picture, those in the castle immediately opened the castle gates and surrendered Edirne to the Turks. According to another legend, all the girls were in love with the voice of Kıyak Baba.
they've become. The girls came to the place between Buçuktepe and the water reservoir. This place was called "girls' plateau" in reference to that event. (Alaaddin Doğan, Edirne, 10.01.2015)

There are several different beliefs about the inverted tulip motif on the south-east corner pillar of the muezzin mahfel of the Selimiye Mosque. The most common one is about the tulip garden belonging to an inverted woman, and this narrative has several variants that differ within itself. According to the legend, a stubborn old woman had a tulip garden where the mosque was to be built. Although the entire area around her garden was purchased, the woman insisted on not giving up her garden. In the end, the daughter of the Magnificent, Mihrimah Sultan and Sinan the Architect persuaded her, albeit with difficulty. Mihrimah Sultan personally paid for the garden with her private pocket money.
he welcomed her. But the woman said to Sinan:
- Mimar Aga, okay, I sold my garden, but I have a request from you. I would like to see my tulips upside down in the mosque.
Mimar Sinan accepted this offer after some thought. After the mosque was completed, Sinan called the woman and showed her the inverted tulip motif. The woman was delighted and said:

- This is what I wanted, as long as the mosque exists, my name will be remembered through this tulip.

(Sevinç Akbaş, Edirne, 02.03.2015)

In 1801, Wahhabi Arabs massacred some Turks on pilgrimage, some of whom returned wounded. Only three people returned from a group of forty pilgrims from Edirne. Upon these events, the pilgrimage route was closed. Turkish pilgrims could not go to the holy land for eleven years. In order to appease the Muslims' desire for pilgrimage, Ataullah Efendi, the sheikhulislam of the period, had the muezzin's mahfela built in the middle of Selimiye and issued a fatwa that Muslims could perform pilgrimage by circling around this mahfela. After this date, Muslims in and around Edirne came to Selimiye to make pilgrimage. Selimiye is called Kaaba-i Sâni
and it starts to be known as the "muezzin's cloister".

When the muezzin mahfeli was being built in Selimiye, the sultan was Selim III. At this time Selim III wants to revive the Tulip period, which had ended seventy years before him. Seeing that this would be a disaster, Ataullah Efendi had an inverted tulip made on one of the legs of the mahfel during the construction of the muezzin's mahfel in order to point out that a Tulip period would start some rebellions against the sultan and that the sultanate would collapse as a result. According to Ataullah Efendi, when the sultan comes to see the muezzin's mahfel, he will also see this inverted tulip, and without needing to say anything, he will give up his pleasure and enjoyment. However, the event predicted by Ataullah Efendi occurs before Selim III sees the message on the foot of the muezzin's mahfel. When Selim III sets out for Edirne to see the muezzin's mahfel and arrives in Çorlu, the "Edirne Incident" occurs and he returns.
He is forced to return.

(Cengiz Bulut, Edirne 24.04.2015)

Forty raiders crossing to Rumelia wrestle in the meadow of Ahi Köy near Edirne. Two of them continue to wrestle until midnight. They could not win and breathed their last. Their friends prepare their graves and bury them side by side. Later on, on the return of the expedition, they see a lush spring flowing in the graves of these two braves. In memory of the forty braves who first set foot in the region, this place is called Kırkpınar. In addition, the number forty has a sacred place in our culture.

According to another variant, in 1346, during the campaigns organized by Orhan Gazi to conquer Rumelia, his eldest son Süleyman Pasha marched on the Byzantine Domuz Hisar with 40 soldiers. They captured it with a raid. After capturing the other fortresses, the 40-man vanguard returned and stopped in Samona, now in Greece. The 40 warriors wrestled here. During hours of wrestling, the two brothers, rumored to be named Ali and Selim, could not win.

Later, on a Hıdrellez day, the same couple wrestle again in the meadow of Ahı village near Edirne. Although they wrestle for a whole day, the brother and sister wrestlers are unable to win again, and they continue their struggle throughout the night under the light of candles and lanterns. However, they gasp for breath and die on the spot.

Their friends buried them under a fig tree in the same place and left. Years later, when they went to the same place, they saw a lush spring where the graves of the two wrestlers lay. After that, the people named that region "Kırkpınar" in memory of those who lay there.

After the capture of Edirne, Murat I established a lodge for wrestlers in Edirne and from then on it became a tradition to hold wrestling matches every year.

According to another claim, the history of Kırkpınar Wrestling goes back much further. According to M. Atıf Kahraman, Sarı Saltuk took advantage of the turmoil in Byzantium and the Bulgarians and took Edirne from the Bulgarians in 1261. After staying in Edirne for 40 years, Sarı Saltuk had to go to Dobrudja, where he died. Byzantine ruler Andronikos then appointed his son as governor of Edirne. According to this claim, Sarı Saltuk, who was a wrestler himself, was the first person to organize Kırkpınar Wrestling before the Ottomans.

Byzantium was constantly asking for help from the Ottomans due to internal conflicts. Orhan Gazi was helping them, but he also wanted to use it for his own interests. His biggest dream was to establish a Turkish dominance in Rumelia. While he was expanding his thoughts in this direction, one day his brother (his son) Süleyman Pasha:

-Let's capture Domuzhisari with a raid. Orhan Gazi thought that the conditions were ripe and told Süleyman Pasha what to do.
Süleyman Pasha crossed Rumelia one night with the help of forty heroes and two rafts. When these braves, who both rested and wrestled at every stop, came to the meadow of Ahırköy, two of them got into wrestling again because they could not conclude their wrestling before. The wrestling continued until midnight and again there was no result and the two wrestlers died on the spot with their breath taken away and reached the rank of martyrdom. Their friends buried the lifeless bodies of these two braves under a fig tree and continued their raids towards Edirne. After a while, when the braves who conquered Edirne and returned came to Ahırköy meadow, they saw a water boiling at the base of the fig tree where they buried their friends.

Upon this, they named the place "Kırkpınar" by saying "These were the forty, the first ones to set foot on this side" and every year on Hıdrellez Day, wrestling was organized in memory of the martyred wrestlers. (Durak Keskin, Edirne, 18.02.2015)

In Edirne, a very beautiful girl came to a house as a bride. The fondness of the beautiful for the mirror was also present in this girl. At every moment, she would arrange her eyebrows, hair, clothes, dress herself up and look in the mirror. In fact, so much so that the bride often disrupted the work of the house and could not complete any work because she spent too much time dressing up. The mother-in-law, who thought that she needed to find a solution to this issue, attached a mirror to the bride's broom and handed it to the bride and said:

-Bride! Here is a broom with a mirror, both sweep and watch yourself.

After that, the broom with mirror became famous. (Songül Özgör, Edirne, 05.11.2014)

Once upon a time, there was a bride in Edirne who was too lazy to do housework. Because she was so lazy, she was always scolded by her mother-in-law who came behind her without being seen. Wanting to find a solution to this, the bride thought of a way to see her mother-in-law coming in advance and to tidy herself up. Finally, she thought of putting a small mirror on her side of the broom and watching whether her mother-in-law was coming or not. This mirror, which the lazy bride wore to watch her mother-in-law, later turned into a cultural product.
According to a rumor, brides who argued with their mothers-in-law about housework and were subjected to their bad words would express these feelings by holding the mirror on the broom towards their mother-in-law with exaggerated movements while sweeping to say "You are talking back at me, but turn around and look at yourself." (Nagihan Biga, Büyünlü, 15.12.2016)

Murat II had a dream one night that the Prophet prayed in the place where Darü'l Hadis Mosque is located today, and then he saw the Prophet transmitting hadith in that place. He said, "There must be some wisdom in this." He built a madrasah and a mosque in this neighborhood, and since the Prophet was narrating hadith, they named this madrasah and mosque "Darü'l Hadith." (Mahmut Eroğlu, Edirne, 17.04.2015)

In ancient times, there was an old man's house near the Dar al-Hadith Mosque. The man got out of bed at night for some reason and looked towards the mosque. The lights of the mosque were on.

He said to himself: -Oh dear! It is time for morning prayers, I fell asleep, he said to himself. He immediately prepared his pitcher and basin, made ablution and rushed to the mosque, but the lights of the mosque were off. It was dark all around. So he returned home. In the morning, he told what he had seen at night, and those who knew said:

-This is Dar al Hadith, an institution where the words of the Prophet are read and memorized, so the Prophet visits here especially on the night connecting Thursday to Friday. Those lights are the lights of the angels following the Prophet. You could only have seen them.

The source says that this event took place 150-200 years ago. There are also some memorats about it.

(Ali Süzen, Edirne, 17.04.2015)

Emir Suleiman, the eldest son of Yıldırım Beyazıt, saw the Prophet in his dream one night. Prophet Muhammad (SAW)

- O Suleiman, build a mosque for my ummah for me.

As soon as Emir Suleiman got up in the morning, he prepared the plan of the mosque and started its construction. When the trenches were dug for the foundation of the mosque and the stones were placed in their places, Musa Çelebi, Emir Suleiman's brother, raided Emir Suleiman with his soldiers. Emir Suleiman was defeated and fled, but when he reached a village, the villagers slaughtered Emir Suleiman to curry favor with Musa Çelebi. When Musa Çelebi heard this, he had all those villagers killed and continued to build the mosque for his brother's soul.

After a while, when Mehmet Çelebi won successes against Emir Timur, he declared himself sultan by minting coins and reading a khutba and marched against his brother Musa Çelebi. Musa Çelebi received the news and was martyred by one of his own soldiers while fleeing in defeat. Mehmet Çelebi continued to build the mosque for the soul of his brother Süleyman Çelebi.

(Gülcan, 1979: 16-17)

When Sultan Murat was going to march on Edirne for conquest, his regents said:

- Sir, there are many infidels there. They prevented him saying that it would take an erg like Sarı Saltuk to conquer this place. That night, the Prophet Muhammad (SAW) entered Murat I's dream. Prophet Muhammad (SAW) said to Sultan Murat:

- Son! Gazi Murat; go, cross to Rum. Reach Edirne. Do not be afraid, do not be lazy. After this, Edirne will be the land of Islam. My Ummah will multiply there, make it your capital. Edirne is Darü'n Nasr and Beytü'l Fetih. You will conquer the world from there. There is an aqsa-yı arz-ı mubarak there. Build a mosque in Edirne. It is the place where prayers are accepted.

When Sultan Murat conquered Edirne, he had the Frengiye bastion, which is now in the place of the Old Mosque, demolished and built a prayer hall there. Yıldırım Bayezid, who came after him, built a courtyard around the prayer hall and put gates in three places. When Yildirim passed away, Emir Suleiman came to Edirne and gathered troops to go against Timur, he sacrificed sacrifices at Murat II's prayer hall and asked for prayers. He told his soldiers:

- Dig a ditch at the bottom of this wall. If I return from the conquest, I will build a great mosque here," and then he put three stones in place of the mihrab with his own hand. He also started the construction of the mosque a little bit:

- We built three cubits on each side. Let the rest stand. When we come back, the rest
and marched against Timur, saying, "We will build the walls too." After Yildirim was captured, Emir Suleiman succeeded against Timur.
and won the throne. After Emir Suleiman's assassination, Musa Çelebi took the throne. He continued to build the mosque. Then Çelebi Mehmet had the mosque completed. The place where Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) said "aksa-yı arz-ı mübarek", meaning "one of the most blessed places in the world" was the place where the old mosque was built.

(Abu'l Hayr-i Rûmi, 2013: 657-658)

Tatar Khan, one of the khans of Crimea, arrives with his entourage to fight Sultan Murat at a place close to Sarayiçi, which was then known as Maslahat Deresi. Since it was the beginning of the conquests in Rumelia, Celâleddin Çelebi, one of the guardians of the time, did not want bloodshed. Instead, it is decided to hold a test. They gather in a place. Meanwhile, Tatar Khan reins his horse, but two Mevlevi dervishes come out from a place known as Ayı Deresi and tie the feet of the Khan's horse with the shackles in their hands, and the horse stumbles and falls to the ground. At that moment, the soldiers attacked and beheaded the Tatar Khan. His entourage was also subjugated.

Sultan Murat Khan realized that it was Mevlana who had bestowed this help on him and he went into a dream to find out the reason. He sees Mevlana in his dream. Mevlana asks Sultan Murat Khan to build a khagangah where dervishes and students can live their lives. Upon this, Sultan Murat Khan builds the Muradiye Mevlevi Lodge. First, Jalaluddin Çelebi was appointed as the postmaster.
(Ahmet Badi, 2014: 1447-1448)

Mother Bolca is a figure defined as an evliya among the people. The fame of this woman saint, who has an important place in Thracian folk culture, has nowadays exceeded the borders of Thrace and has reached Turkey and the Balkans. Bolca Ana, whose real name is rumored to be Fatma, lived in Mutlu village of Babaeski district of Kırklareli province. She is known to have lived in the 15th century.

The story in the inscription hung on the place where her tomb is located is as follows: Fatma from Kofalçalı (the old name of Mutlu village), who fell in love with one of the Rumelia raiders, became resentful of life when her beloved did not return as a martyr in the last expedition she participated in, and retreated into seclusion in the woods near her village. From then on, her prophecies began to be told among the people and she was believed to be a saint. In such a period, Fatih Sultan Mehmed Khan, who went on a campaign against Europe, stopped and stayed in the vicinity of Kofalça village on the campaign route between Babaeski-Edirne with his army. While some of the soldiers were wandering around, they came to the grove area with plenty of greenery and water where Fatma Ana lived near today's Mutlu village.

Fatma Ana was cooking food for herself here. The soldiers, smelling the food, stop by her. Fatma Ana God rejoices when she sees her guests, welcomes them and realizes that they are hungry and wants to offer them food. When the soldiers, who are a little crowded in number, see that the food is not enough, they do not want to eat, thinking that it will not be enough for them. "Mother, this food is not enough for us," they call out. Then Mother Fatma starts to fill the plates of the soldiers and says "Eat, my daughters, eat plenty, eat plenty". As the soldiers ate, they saw that the food cooked in the pot did not decrease, on the contrary, it increased and they filled their bellies to the brim.

The soldiers left happily and were astonished by this wise event. They began to think that Fatma Ana was a saint and first told the incident to their friends in the camp. The incident gradually spreads among the soldiers and reaches the ears of the sultan. Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror, who was curious about the subject, listened to the incident from the witnesses. After listening to what happened, the Sultan became more curious and wanted to see and get to know Mother Fatma.

He takes some of his commanders and soldiers who witnessed the incident and comes to the place where Fatma Ana lives. The Sultan gets off his horse and wants to kiss her hand and calls her as follows: "From now on your name will be Bolca Ana".

From that day on, Fatma Ana's name became known as "Bolca Ana". In her old age, she started to be known as "Grandma Bolca" in that neighborhood. For this reason, today she is more commonly referred to as "Grandma Bolca" among the people.

According to another rumor, Fatma showed another miracle here. According to this rumor, Fatma offered the Sultan to leave the pikes that the soldiers tied to their horses there that night. Her request was accepted by the Sultan. When the next day came, the soldiers who came to get their pikes saw that each pike had turned into a sapling. Thus, it was definitively judged that Bolca Ana was a saint.

Bolca Ana, who is rumored to have died at the end of the XVth century, was buried in this wooded area where she spent her life and showed her miracles. Today, her grave has turned into a place of veneration. Especially in the week of May 6 (Hıdırellez), which has an important place in Thracian folk culture, sacrifices are sacrificed here, wishes are made and prayers are offered. However, it is known that visits are made for the same purpose at other times of the year from all over the country, especially from Thrace.

(https://sks.trakya.edu.tr/pages/bolca-ana-kimdir)

Sarı Saltuk met Hz. Hızır, Hz. İlyas and the Sunni djinn Menucher in Hıdırlık and after he increased his wilayat and power, he went down to the city. There was a small church in Edirne where the guests stayed. Sari Saltuk came to this church disguised as a priest and stayed there.

He told those who asked him who he was that he was Shemun, the son of the priest Rahul, and that he had come here to compete in knowledge with other priests. When the tekfur and the high priest were informed that such a person had come, they were curious and came to the church. Three hundred monks and the patriarchs of the priests had a scholarly contest with Sari Saltuk, but none of them could compete with him. After that, Sari Saltuk went up to the pulpit and preached.
He read passages from the Bible. Then he said:
- "O people, I saw Christ in a dream tonight. He said to me, 'Baptize my ummah with the foot of my donkey. Strike them on the back of their necks with that donkey's foot. Whichever of them you hit the fastest, let them know that he will go to heaven first." They immediately fulfilled the request of Sari Saltuk, whom they mistook for Shemun. They brought the donkey's foot, which was found in a great church in Edirne and believed to belong to the donkey of Jesus Christ, together with its chest. Sari Saltuk opened the chest, cried and started reading the Bible. He said to the Christians there:
- O people, know that I go up to the sky at night. I meet with Christ. If you don't believe me, I will fly to the door of the church with this foot. Immediately he recited the prayer he had been taught by the Sunni djinn Menucher, called him and asked him to take him to the dome. Menucher did as requested.

The Christians saw that the priest was flying and they all trusted him. Sari Saltuk:
- "Now, gather all men and women here, I will baptize them and give them one gold coin for each man. The infidels did as they were told. Sarı Saltuk 358 struck those who came for baptism with the foot of a donkey so hard that they all bled from their mouths and noses. Then he took all the money collected and left Edirne.

(Abu'l Hayr-i Rûmi, 2013: 45-46)