Silahi Mehmet Efendi Mosque

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Construction Year:

1453-1465 (Precise date unknown)

Location:

Eyüpsultan, İstanbul

Ordered by:

Silahşor Mehmet Bey (Banisi cami yanında medfundur)

Architect:

Unknown

- Changes the building has undergone since its construction
  • It underwent extensive repairs in 1960.
- Prominent features of the mosque
  • The mosque is built with a combination of cut stone and brick. It has a vaulted roof and there is a wooden shuttered window on three facades. There is no inscription on the building.
  • The door of the mosque opens to a closed narthex.
  • The mosque attracts attention with its pavillion-type minaret, examples of which can be found in Gaziantep and Kahramanmaraş.