Altay Mosque

Audio Narration

Construction Year:

1670

Location:

Fatih, İstanbul

Ordered by:

Şeyhülislam Debbağzâde Mehmed Efendi (According to some sources, his grandfather Debbağoğlu Hacı Hasan Efendi built it through the foundations or at his own expense)

Architect:

Unknown

- Changes after its construction:
  • After World War I it was devastated and in the 1920s and became a plot of land.
  • It was rebuilt by the Mosque Reconstruction Association under the control of the Foundations Administration in 1984. It was opened for worship in 1987.
- Prominent Features:
  • It was built in the classical style; its main dome is placed on an eight-sided drum on 4 walls, and the arcades in the narthex are covered with 3 small domes.
  • Its single-balcony minaret is made of stone. It has a main gate.
  • The mihrab is decorated with Kütahya tiles; the minbar, the pulpit and the gallery are decorated with wooden decorations.
  • Its dome is decorated with carvings, embroidery and inscriptions.
  • There is a small, well-maintained cemetery in the courtyard.
  • Its pulpit, minbar and gallery are made of wood; its mihrab is made of tiles.
  • There are shops belonging to the foundation under the mosque.
  • There is a small burial ground in its courtyard and its founder is buried there.