Person in the Tomb
Ayas Mehmed Paşa, Enderun’dan yetişmiş önemli bir Osmanlı devlet adamıdır. Saraydan Serdengeçti Ağası olarak çıkmış, 1514 Çaldıran Seferi’ne ve 1522 Rodos Kuşatması’na katılmış, Anadolu ve Rumeli beylerbeyliği yapmıştır.
Kanuni Sultan Süleyman’ın sadrazamlığını 1536-1539 yılları arasında üstlenmiş, padişahın tüm seferlerine katılmıştır. 13 Temmuz 1539 tarihinde veba salgınında vefat etmiştir.
About the Mausoleum
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It is in the style of an open tomb: It is a simple structure with four pointed arches and a single dome, seated on four marble columns.
It is made of cut stone and covered with a dome.
There is a tall marble coffin inside.
The headstone is in the form of a mihrab, and the footstone is flat; his name and date of death are written on it in Ottoman Turkish.
Although it is not very striking from an architectural point of view, the possibility that it may be the first work of Mimar Sinan gives the structure importance in terms of art history.
The tomb has been largely restored and preserved in recent times.
