Derviş Ali Mosque

Derviş Ali Mosque

Year Built
1512 (Estimated)
Commissioned By
Mimar (Architect) Derviş Ali (One of the architects of the Bayezid II era)
Architect
Mimar Derviş Ali
Location
Fatih
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Changes After Construction

  1. It was rebuilt in 1812 after falling into disrepair for a long time.

  2. In 1978, the remaining walls were demolished and rebuilt by the Mosque Construction Association.

Featured Highlights

  • Its walls are built of two rows of bricks and one row of cut stone; its ceiling is flat and plastered with concrete, and its roof is covered with tiles.

  • The mosque has a rectangular plan and a single entrance door.

  • Its minbar is made of white-orange marble, its mihrab is made of black-white marble, and its pulpit is made of wood.

  • The interior walls are covered with wooden paneling up to one meter high.

  • There are three windows on each side wall, top and bottom, and two windows on the mihrab wall.

  • The small minaret on the left has a polygonal body on a square base and a lead-coated cone with a Mevlevi (Mawlawi) coin-shaped finial on it. The place of call-to-prayer is without a balcony, and is inside.

  • There are nine graves in the garden, but Derviş Ali's grave no longer exists.

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