Çakmakçılar Mosque

Çakmakçılar Mosque

Year Built
1761
Commissioned By
Sultan Mustafa III
Architect
Unknown
Location
Fatih
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Changes After Construction

  1. It underwent significant repairs in 1954.

  2. The mosque was built on an inn and the lower floors are entirely workplaces.

Featured Highlights

  • It is also known as the Saka Çeşmesi Mosque and the Sultan Mustafa III Mosque due to the fountain on which it was built and its benefactor.

  • It attracts attention with its high-rise (upper-storey) structure, and the mosque is entered through the inn door.

  • The walls are built using alternating bricks and stones.

  • Its dome is covered with lead.

  • It has two rows of windows; the lower ones are rectangular, and the upper ones are oval.

  • Its mihrab is painted with oil paint and its minbar is wooden.

  • The upper gallery is accessed by a spiral staircase and there is no preacher’s pulpit.

  • There is an additional room behind the right wall.

  • Its minaret has a single balcony and is made of brick, and its cone is covered with lead.

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