Changes After Construction
The wooden additions were damaged in a fire in 1833.
Mehmed Bey, the son of Ahmed Pasha, one of the statesmen of the reign of Mehmed IV, had its minbar placed and converted into a mosque while he was the Governor of Crete.
The repairs made by a philanthropist lady from Trabzon in 1920 brought it to its current state.
In 2014, it was restored by the Directorate General of Foundations and opened for worship in 2018.
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It is also known as the “Sofular Mosque”.
It is one of the three mosques built by Molla Khusraw
The mosque has a rectangular plan and is 17.65 m wide inside.
Its walls are made of stone, its roof is the widest among those with roofs and is covered with tiles. Its ceiling is wooden and slatted. Its minbar, women’s gallery and pulpit are wooden.
The interior of the mosque is in the shape of an inverted ”T”. The section where the mihrab is located is a square room facing outwards. Also, the mihrab is projected outwards here.
The lower windows in the mihrab hall and on the wall of the mihrab are plain. There are five to ten upper windows on each side, which is unique.
The women’s gallery is from the reign of Sultan Mahmud II and is in Empire style.
