Hacı Ferhat Ağa Mosque

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Construction Year:

1532

Location:

Fatih, İstanbul

Ordered by:

Hacı Ferhat Agha (A charitable statesman who lived during the Ottoman Empire)

Architect:

Unknown

Changes After Its Construction:
  • The mosque was previously burned and ruined and was repaired by the Foundations Administration and the mosque community in 1968.
Prominent Features:
  • 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).