Zühtü Paşa Mosque

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Construction Year:

1884

Location:

Kadıköy, İstanbul

Ordered by:

Ahmed Zühdü Pasha (Minister of Education and Finance of Abdul Hamid II)

Architect:

Unknown

- Changes after its construction
  • In 1889, a primary school was added; today it is used as a Quran school.
  • At the end of the 1980s, an eight-columned fountain and musalla stones were added in front of the mihrab.
- Prominent Features
  • It is a square planned mosque designed in an eclectic style and adorned with Neo-Gothic and Neoclassical ornaments.
  • Its single dome sits on pendentives; there is a short-bodied, single-balcony minaret in the right corner of the mosque.
  • There are Kütahya tiles on the mihrab, and rich decorations on the wooden minbar and the preacher’s pulpit.
  • There are verses written in gold gilt by the calligraphies Ebüzziya Mehmed Tevfik and Husamettin inside the dome and on the walls.
  • There is a small cemetery consisting of five graves. Here are the graves of Zühdü Pasha, his second wife Hatice Vahide Kamer Hanım, his son Asım Bey, his daughter Sulhiye Hanım and his daughter Ayşe Lutfiye Hanım, who was the trustee of the foundation.