Yeşilköy Mecidiye Mosque
- Changes after its construction
- The construction, which started in 1909/1911, was completed only during the Republican period.
- The narthex is two-storey, closed and covered with a reinforced concrete slab; the upper floor is used as a women’s gallery. Additions in the form of sheds have been made to the narthex.
- Prominent Features
- It was built in the style known as the First National Architectural Movement (Turkish Neo-Classical).
- It has a rectangular plan, almost a square, a single dome and a single-balcony minaret.
- The dome, which sits on an octagonal drum, is supported by horizontal concrete slabs instead of traditional corner pendentives. The dome has a wide and flat appearance and sits directly on the main walls.
- The cylindrical, short and thick-bodied minaret has a single balcony and the underside of the balcony is decorated with muqarnas (stalactites).
- The mosque has a cut stone facade and its windows are made in both pointed and horseshoe arches. There is a construction inscription on the south door.
- The white marble mihrab attracts attention with its muqarnas decorations. The upper part of the wooden classical style minbar is covered with a pointed cone. There are both classical and baroque style hand-drawn decorations in the Harim and narthex.
- The mosque has a small courtyard and there are octagonal columns on both sides of the courtyard gate.
