Mimar Mehmet Ağa Mosque
- Changes after its 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.
- Prominent features
- 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.
