Saçlı Abdülkadir Mosque
- Changes the building has undergone since its construction
- It was first built in 1538 on the tomb of Abdürrahim Effendi, the father of Saçlı Abdülkadir Effendi.
- After the original structure was ruined, the current mosque was built as Darülkurra by Sheikh al-Islam Hodja Sadeddin Effendi between 1585-1590.
- Prominent features of the mosque
- It is a single-domed, raised structure that partially reflects the architectural features of the classical Ottoman period. Today, it is used as a mosque.
- There are three graves in the shrine located in the direction of the Eyüp Sultan Mosque. In addition, in the old mosque area, there are the graves of Sheikh Abdürrahim Effendi and his son, Sheikh al-Islam Saçlı Abdülkadir Effendi, the first founder of the mosque.
- There are hundreds of tombstones dating back to the 16th and 19th centuries in the mosque’s graveyard. Among these are the graves of Hodja Sadeddin Effendi and Ibrahim Effendi, the protagonist of Samiha Ayverdi’s novel “İbrahim Efendi Konağı”.
- Abdülkadir Effendi was one of the Grand Muftis during the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent. His father was Abdürrahim Effendi, the sheikh of the Sivasî Dervish Lodge.
*Darülkurra is a school where graduates are called Qari and are trained to recite the Quran in the most beautiful way.
