Hacı İsa Mosque

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Construction Year:

1465-1466

Location:

Fatih, İstanbul

Ordered by:

Hacı İsa (One of the flagbearers of Mehmed the Conqueror)

Architects:

Unknown

- Changes after its construction
  • In 1742, the mosque was converted into a mosque by the Grand Vizier Hekimoğlu Ali Pasha by adding a minbar.
  • The mosque, which was destroyed in the 1894 Istanbul earthquake, was rebuilt during the reign of Sultan Abdulhamid II.
- Prominent features
  • The mosque is a small, almost square-plan building; its walls are made of stone, plastered with cement and painted yellow. Its roof is covered with tiles and its minaret has a single balcony.
  • The mihrab is made of tiles, the minbar is wooden, the pulpit is marble and there is a muezzin’s gallery and a women’s gallery. The women’s gallery is supported by two round concrete pillars. The interior walls are covered with wainscoting (thin and long panels used in interior walls and ceiling decoration) from the ground to the middle of the windows. The minaret on the right side of the mosque is accessed from the outside and has a single balcony.
  • To the right of the entrance door is the grave of the benefactor, whose death date is 1470, and to the left is a century-old plane tree. 50 meters from the mosque is the grave of Abdullah al-Ansari, one of the Companions of the Prophet Muhammad, in the garden of a house.
  • At the corner of the mosque is the Hacı İsa Mosque Fountain, built by Suleiman the Magnificent and known as the “Kürkçü Fountain”. It is also known as Kürkçü Masjid.