Kumkapı Behram Çavuş Mosque
- Changes after its construction
- It was completely burned in the Great Hocapaşa fire of 1865 and rebuilt by the Fourth Army
Marshal Mustafa Tevfik Pasha in 1881. - It was last repaired in 1957.
- The Behram Çavuş Mosque Fountain next to the mosque was restored by the Eminönü
Service Foundation in 1998 and restored to its water by the Fatih Municipality in 2024.
- Prominent features
- The mosque, which is made of stone and has a wooden roof, is covered with tiles.
- The upper gallery is accessed from the muezzin’s gallery. The upper gallery is seated on two
wooden posts, and its mihrab is made of plaster; the minbar and the pulpit are wooden. - The ceiling is divided into squares with slats and is made of wood.
- There are three windows on the right and left walls each; there are two long windows on the
mihrab wall. - Its single-balcony minaret is made of stone.
The dates of the first construction of the mosque are written on one of the candlesticks on
either side of the mihrab. - The interior contains works by the famous calligrapher Sami Efendi.
- In the courtyard, there is a three-tap ablution area from the Tulip Period and an abandoned
fountain. - The grave of its first benefactor, Behram Çavuş, is in the graveyard, but his tombstone is lost.
