Neslişah Sultan Mosque

Neslişah Sultan Mosque

Year Built
1540-1541
Commissioned By
Neslişah Sultan (Daughter of Sultan Bayezid II's son-in-law Dukakinzade MehmetPasha)
Architect
Unknown
Location
Sariyer
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Changes After Construction

  1. In 1957, the mosque was demolished and added to the road.

  2. A new mosque bearing the same name was built later.

  3. In 2015, the mosque graveyard was registered as a cultural asset and taken underprotection.

Featured Highlights

  • It was built by Neslişah Sultan as a small social complex consisting of a mosque, aschool, a fountain, a fountain, a well and a harem.

  • Lillahi Kane Kayren; (“Source of charity for Allah”) and the date of construction areengraved on the mosque’s door arch, regarding the charities of Neslişah Sultan .

  • The foundation charter determined the mosque’s income sources and services in detail.

  • There are only women’s graves in the mosque’s graveyard.

  • The mosque that exists today is a structure with a hipped roof, masonry walls, and aprayer hall illuminated by pointed arched windows. Its cylindrical minaret sits on asquare-based plinth.

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