Fatma Sultan Mosque
- Changes after its construction
- The mosque, whose four walls had fallen into disrepair over time, was rebuilt on the remaining walls and opened for worship in 1971 with the efforts of the local association.
- Prominent features
- The mosque has a rectangular plan.
- The roof was constructed using wooden materials and covered with tiles.
- The walls were built using one row of bricks and two rows of stones; the walls were covered with tiles up to the level of the lower window, raised off the ground.
- Inside the mosque, there is a women’s gallery built on two concrete pillars and made of reinforced concrete.
- The minbar and the pulpit are made of wood; the mihrab is made of plaster.
- While there are two windows, one above the other, on the mihrab wall, there is one window, each above and one below, on the left and right walls.
- The section where the narthex and women’s gallery are located is constructed of reinforced concrete.
- On the right side of the mosque, the base of the squat minaret, of which no originality remains, is made of stone and three rows of bricks, while the upper part is made of stone.
- Fatma Sultan was buried outside the tomb of her husband Kara Ahmed Pasha in Topkapı Mosque, and the foundation of the mosque was also included in Ahmed Pasha’s foundation.
