Hızır Çavuş Mosque

The mosque and the school next to it burned down in the great Balat fire of 1854.
After the fire, it was rebuilt by a benefactor in the name of its founder.
It was repaired in 1963-1964 by reinforcing concrete and raising it with the help of the Monuments Association and the mosque community.

In the work of “Mosques of Istanbul”, Hızır Agha is also mentioned as Sefer Çavuş. It is thought that the building is also called “Çavuş Mosque” and “Sefer Çavuş Mosque” for this reason.
It has a rectangular plan, a roof and is made of stone. The inner wall skirtings are covered with tiles. The ceiling is concrete, the minbar and pulpit are wooden. The windows are one below and to the left of the mihrab, three on the left wall and two on the right wall. Since the windows are long, there are no upper row windows.
The area around the mihrab is covered with marble and the inside is covered with tiles. There is a muezzin’s gallery and women’s gallery and a narthex. The women’s gallery is accessed from inside the mosque.
Its minaret has a single balcony, is made of brick and concrete plastered and is located on the right side of the mosque.
In the courtyard of the mosque, there is a tombstone that does not belong to Hızır Agha and is dated 1453. It is estimated that the work was built on this date.