Mosque

İslambey Mosque

A fountain was added next to the mosque in 1700.
Towards the end of the 19th century, the Badawiyya order was given the sheikhdom by the Egyptian Sheikh Hasanain al-Ahmadi and the mosque then began to serve as the Badawi Asitane.
The Badawiyya Lodge became a frequent destination for Egyptian junkers and travelers.
In 1980, some of the structures belonging to the lodge (sheikh cells and dedegan rooms) were demolished.

The mosque, a typical 16th century square-plan masjid, is built of stacked stone. It has a wooden roof and a lead-coated spire-shaped minaret. The building, which receives light from the upper and lower windows, has a mihrab decorated with stalactite; and the pulpit is made of wood.
There are courtyard gates opening onto both streets. There was a wooden mansion and dedegan’s rooms inside the courtyard.
The pulpit and base of the minaret on the right side of the mosque are made of cut stone, and the body and upper sections are plastered with cement.
In the mosque’s graveyard is the tomb of its founder, İslam Bey. There is no date on the tomb; there is only a small inscription with a Badawi coin placed on the mihrab wall.
The last sheikh of the lodge was İsmail Hakkı Kırmızıtaş, who passed away in 1976. His father, Sheikh Hafız İbrahim Efendi, also served as a sheikh here.
The original door of the mosque has a marble arch and its inscription has not survived to the present day.