İğneci Hasan Mosque

Audio Narration:

Construction Year:

1730

Location:

Fatih, İstanbul

Ordered by:

İğneci (Needle maker) Hacı Hasan Agha

Architects:

Unknown

Changes After Its Construction:
  •  It is stated that the masjid was built when a room located above the gate of the
    Çuhacılar Inn was converted into a masjid by İğneci Hacı Hasan Agha.
  •  Mentioned inn was built by Nevşehirli İbrahim Pasha; it was rented out by
    foundations and the mosque was used outside the inn.
  •  According to the Istanbul Encyclopedia, the masjid remained inside the building
    when the inn was built; in addition, Avadis Mesropyan, who was born in 1893 and
    came to Istanbul in 1904 and who had been a coffeehouse owner in the
    Çuhacılar Inn for many years, stated that the masjid was open for worship during
    the First World War (until 1914), had two sections with a lower and upper section,
    and was later closed and added to the inn as two rooms.
  •  In 1964, there was a bedstead manufacturing facility in the lower part of the old
    mosque and a foundry workshop in the upper part, while the iron railing and the
    place of call to prayer facing the street remained standing.
- Prominent features
  •  The mosque is a small building located in the Grand Bazaar, accessed by stairs.
  •  On the lower floor there is a small area and a place for ablution; on the upper
    floor there is the main part of the mosque.
  •  Its walls, mihrab and minbar are decorated with tiles; its pulpit is made of
    carefully crafted wood.
  •  There are two domes in the building, and the women gallery is reached on a
    single wooden pole.
  •  It is also known as the “Çuhacılar Hanı Mosque”.