Changes After Construction
The mosque, built by the Agha of Babüssaade (The Door of Bliss, one of the entrances of Topkapı Palace) Karabaş Mustafa bin Korkut Bey in the 16th century, was completely demolished and rebuilt in 1957 (there is also a source stating that it was 1961-62) by the order of the Prime Minister of the period, Adnan Menderes.
A complex consisting of a zawiya, a primary school and a prayer room was built together with the mosque, but no traces of these structures have survived to the present day. While the zawiya was initially a Khalwati one, it is stated in some sources that Qadiri ceremonies were also held there later.
In the graveyard of the mosque are the graves of the sheikhs who served in the Karabaş Zawiya.
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The mosque, built on a 295 m² plot, has walls made of stone and brick.
The mosque has a square plan, a single-domed and single-balcony brick minaret. The cone of the minaret was renewed with stone during the restorations.
A fountain's inscription was later mounted next to the entrance door of the mosque.
In the courtyard, there is a historical water tank made of monolithic marble decorated with cypress motifs.
The fountain is surrounded by a stone wall surrounding it, and Demircikulu Yusuf Effendi, the benefactor and the calligrapher of the Kılıç Ali Pasha Mosque inscriptions, is buried in the mosque's graveyard.
A charity stone converted from an ancient porphyry column is located in the corner of the graveyard facing the Kılıç Ali Pasha Mosque.
