Mimar Sinan Masjid

Hacızade Halil Efendi had a minbar installed.
The mosque burned down in the Cibali-Fatih fire of 1918.
Its minaret was repaired in 1938 and 1963.
Shanty houses and apartment buildings were built on the mosque land before the 1950s.
Although the works carried out for the revival of the mosque were prevented by the residents
of the neighborhood occupying the land, it was revived and opened to worship by the
Foundations Administration in 1957.
Its mihrab was made of stone in 1981.
Only wall ruins remain from the school nearby.

Its walls have alternating walls built with one row of cut stone and two rows of brick.
It has a rectangular plan and its roof was constructed using wooden material.
Its mihrab is made of stone; its minbar and pulpit are made of wood.
The mosque consists of two sections, summer and winter; the minbar and pulpit are in the
winter section, while the summer masjid is used mostly on religious holidays, on Fridays and for
women congregation.
All of its windows have the same features and the walls are covered with paneling up to the
level of the lower windows.
An iron staircase leads to the upper gallery from the muezzin’s gallery.
It has a fountain.
Its most obvious feature is the octagonal kiosk minaret, built of Küfeki stone (Fossiliferous
limestone) and crowned with a small dome, placed next to the courtyard entrance. This minaret
has one “adhan” (Islamic call to prayer) window on each face; its outer surface is carved
according to a polygonal principle and it does not have parts such as a pulpit or a leg.