Changes After Construction
The mosque, which burned down in the Cibali fire, was renovated by Koca Mimar Mehmed Agha and a minaret was added.
The mosque, which was in a shabby and dilapidated state and was used as a blacksmith and blacksmith shop, was revived after 1965.
The narthex was added in 1980.
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It has a small area of 36 m² and a square plan.
Its walls are built of brick and stone, and it has two rows of windows.
It has a dome with 8 drums and a single balcony.
Plain bricks are used in the body of the minaret; the balcony railing is of stone.
Its mihrab is marble, its painted minbar, its polished pulpit and its upper gallery are wooden.
The mosque is actually the classroom of the Zeyni Mehmet Efendi Madrasah.
The imam and muezzin duties were carried out by Evliya Mehmed Efendi, the imam of Sultan Murad IV.
