Kaptan Paşa Mosque

Kaptan Paşa Mosque

Year Built
1499 (Mosque) / 1728 - 1729 (Mosque)
Commissioned By
Hamza Fakih Efendi, Grand Admiral Nişancı Kaymak Mustafa Pasha (Ahmed III period)
Architect
Unknown
Location
Uskudar
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Changes After Construction

  1. It was destroyed by fire in 1890 and was repaired by Şerife Nefise Hanım in the same year.

Featured Highlights

  • It is a square-plan, single-domed mosque made of Kufeki stone.

  • The mosque receives light from the upper and lower windows and has colored plaster grids on the upper windows, while the lower windows have classical iron bars and marble jambs.

  • The marble minbar has exquisite workmanship; the side rails are latticed and the preacher's pulpit is wooden.

  • The mihrab is decorated with plaster stalactites, and the interior is decorated with tiles and hand-drawn works.

  • The tiles were made in the Tekfur Palace near Edirnekapı and include the most beautiful examples of the 18th century.

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