Kambur Mustafa Paşa Mosque

It was built in the 17th century as a multi-storey building on a large cellar from the Byzantine
period.
It was severely damaged in the Balat/Cibali Fire of 1918, and its ruins and minaret down to its
balcony remained until the 1940s, but in 1945 its ruins were completely removed.
It was revived and opened for worship by the Fatih Municipality in 2006.

Built on a nearly square plan, with cut stone, two windows on each facade, and a wooden roof,
the mosque is one of the most beautiful examples of the end of the classical period of “sakıflı”
mosques (mosques with wooden roofs built in neighborhoods).
The pulpit of the minaret on the right of the entrance facade is made of stone, the shoe part is
triangular, the body is completely brick, and the balcony, which has no artistic feature, was in
the form of a simple projection.
There is the “Kafir-i Kebir Vault” extending under the mosque.
Today, it has a square plan, two floors, and is built with one row of cut stone and one row of
brick.
It has a mihrab made of cut stone, a wooden minbar and a pulpit.
The ceiling is covered with small square-shaped wooden slats.
The minaret has a single balcony, and its body is made of stone and brick.
The courtyard is higher than street level and can be reached by marble stairs.
In the graveyard of the mosque, Sarıgez Nureddin Efendi, one of the professors of the Fatih
Complex who died in 1515, and Sinaneddin Yusuf Efendi, who wrote a footnote on the “Tafsir
al-Baydawi” (Tafsir: scholarly commentary of the Holy Quran), are buried.