Aşık Paşa Tomb
About the Person:
- Aşık Paşazade, whose real name is Sheikh Ahmed Efendi, is known as one of the founders of Ottoman historiography.
- His famous work, The History of Aşık Paşazade, is an important source on the establishment and rise of the Ottoman Empire.
- He was known with this title because he was a descendant of Aşık Paşa. He received training in Sufism from Sheikh Abdullah el-Makdisî in the Sadreddin Konevi Lodge in Konya and from Seyyid Ebu’l-Vefa in Egypt.
- He came under the protection of İshak Paşa in Rumelia, participated in the Hungarian campaign and the Kosovo War during the reign of Murad II, and after the conquest of Istanbul, he settled in Istanbul and trained students.
About the Tomb:
Construction Year: 15th century
Ordered by: Hüseyin Ağa, son of Abdullah, one of the palace Ağas
Architect: Unknown
Prominent Features:
- The tomb is located within the Aşık Paşa Complex and is positioned in the direction of the qibla of the mosque belonging to the complex.
- It is a square-planned and domed structure.
- The dome is supported by muqarnas consoles and pointed squinches; it is placed on a twelve-sided drum.
- The entrance door is in the northeast direction and opens to the courtyard.
- The interior is illuminated by double rows of windows with rectangular frames and iron bars, some of which are closed today.
- There is a triple visitation window on the street-facing facade, and the middle window is enclosed in a niche. These types of visitation windows are rare and early examples in Istanbul.
