Hacı Ferhat Ağa Mosque

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Construction Year

1532

Location

Fatih, İstanbul

Ordered by

Hacı Ferhat Agha (A charitable statesman who lived during the Ottoman Empire)

Architect

Unknown

Changes after its construction
  • The mosque was previously burned and ruined and was repaired by the
    Foundations Administration and the mosque community in 1968.
Prominent Features
  •  Its walls are made of stone, its ceiling is concrete, its mihrab and minbar are
    made of marble, and its pulpit is made of wood. It has a muezzin’s gallery and a
    women gallery.
  •  Its roof is covered with tiles, its ceiling is flat and painted with lime. Its minaret is
    made of cut stone, has a single balcony and is newly built. It has a fountain.
  •  The mosque commissioner, Hacı Ferhat Agha, is in front of the mihrab. On his
    gravestone it is written “Ferhad bin Abdullah Attar” (Ferhad, son of Abdullah
    Attar).