Tirilye (between 1968 and 2012: Zeytinbağı,[1] "Olive yard") is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of Mudanya, Bursa Province, Turkey.
[3] With the 2013 Turkish local government reorganisation, its town (belde) status and its municipality (belediye) were abolished, and it was made a neighbourhood (mahalle).
The most important historical structure in Tirilye (Triglia) is that of the Byzantine Haghios Stefanos Church (Hinolakkos Monastery, 780 AC), known today as the Fatih Mosque.
Today, the town is under the protection of the Ministry of Culture meaning that old houses cannot be destroyed or rebuilt in a different style to the original one.
When demand for the products of Southern Marmara from the ancient world increased, ports have been constructed in Kios (Gemlik), Kurşunlu, Apamea Myrlea(Mudanya), Siği (Kumyaka), and Trigleia and the region boomed.
Christians use to live in Trigleia and Asia Minor many centuries before the Ottomans conquered the Byzantine Empire and established themselves in the area.
Osman Gazi's Turkmens in Bursa and surroundings have started settling in this location from the beginning of the year 1303, although the majority of the population was (Greek Orthodox) Christians.
It has been declared as a protected monument by 1299/31.8.1990 decision of BURSA KÜLTÜR ve TABİAT VARLIKLARINI KORUMA KURULU BÜRO MÜDÜRLÜĞÜ.
The New Stone School, built on an idea of Metropolitan Chrysostomos (born in Trigleia in 1867), in a markedly neoclassical style, is the largest building in town.
In 1924 after the establishment of the republic it is opened as a school called Dar-ül Eytam for orphans, who were the children of soldiers that died in the war.
It has been declared as a protected monument by 1299/31.8.1990 decision of BURSA KÜLTÜR ve TABİAT VARLIKLARINI KORUMA KURULU BÜRO MÜDÜRLÜĞÜ.
The complex, which was constructed in Tirilye in 1834 as a Greek Church and reconstructed in 1894 by a Sultan's permit, after 1924 The Dar-ül Eytam School, which opens to the Stone School (being used for the workshops for carpentry and iron works for 400 students), and the Agios Georgios Ano church, known as "Dündar House", used as a mess house.
Due to its function it was called "mess hall" until its restoration, which turned the building into Faruk Çelik Cultural Center.
It has been declared as a protected monument by 1299/31.8.1990 decision of Bursa Kültür ve Tabiat Varlıklarını Koruma Kurulu Büro Müdürlüğü.
Upon the request of the Greek Culture Delegation a ceremony was held in this building during the visit of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew I to Tirilye on July 1, 2009.
All four have been declared as a protected monuments by 1299/31.8.1990 decision of Bursa Kültür ve Tabiat Varlıklarını Koruma Kurulu Büro Müdürlüğü.
It has been declared as a protected monument by 1299/31.8.1990 decision of BURSA KÜLTÜR ve TABİAT VARLIKLARINI KORUMA KURULU BÜRO MÜDÜRLÜĞÜ.
It has been declared as a protected monument by 1299/31.8.1990 decision of BURSA KÜLTÜR ve TABİAT VARLIKLARINI KORUMA KURULU BÜRO MÜDÜRLÜĞÜ.
During September 2021 Mudanya Mayor Hyari Turkyilmaz announced his project to expropriate this monument and bring it to urban life.
After that, its history is obscure; it is mentioned in 1054, and it is known that it burned down and was rebuilt in 1800–01, but had fallen into disuse by the end of the 19th century, Today, only the outer wall of the complex survives.
It has been declared as a protected monument by 1299/31.8.1990 decision of BURSA KÜLTÜR ve TABİAT VARLIKLARINI KORUMA KURULU BÜRO MÜDÜRLÜĞÜ.
It has been understood that the Genoese have used Tirilye and Apemeia (Mudanya) ports for transporting the salt extracted from the northern part of Appolonia Lake.
[8] The Historical Pine Coffee lies on a high hill past the Stone School and is referred as the balcony of Tirilye.
[9] The exact name and construction date is not known of the hamam (Turkish Bath) which is located at the same building lot with the Fatih Mosque and in the southern side of it; however, there is information to the effect that it was built by Turks brought from Kastamonu and Üsküdar during Yavuz Sultan Selim's era in the first half of the 16th century.
Its walls were laid with rough stone and brick; in the laying system, typical lighting gaps peculiar to baths were allowed.
The space above the göbek taşı (heated marble platform on which one lies to sweat in a Turkish bath) is covered with two small domes.
It has been declared as a protected monument by 1299/31.8.1990 decision of Bursa Kültür ve Tabiat Varlıklarını Koruma Kurulu Büro Müdürlüğü.