Hacı Ferhat Ağa Mosque

Hacı Ferhat Ağa Mosque

Year Built
1532
Commissioned By
Hacı Ferhat Agha (A charitable statesman who lived during the Ottoman Empire)
Architect
Unknown
Location
Fatih
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Changes After Construction

  1. The mosque was previously burned and ruined and was repaired by the Foundations Administration and the mosque community in 1968.

Featured Highlights

  • Its walls are made of stone, its ceiling is concrete, its mihrab and minbar are made of marble, and its pulpit is made of wood. It has a muezzin’s gallery and a women’s gallery.

  • Its roof is covered with tiles, its ceiling is flat and painted with lime. Its minaret is made of cut stone, has a single balcony and is newly built. It has a fountain.

  • The mosque’s commissioner, Hacı Ferhat Agha, is in front of the mihrab. On his gravestone it is written “Ferhad bin Abdullah Attar” (Ferhad, son of Abdullah Attar).

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