Changes After Construction
It was severely damaged by fires in 1729 and 1780, and after the latter, the building was largely renovated from the ground up, taking on its current appearance.
The mosque was renovated and opened for worship in 1973.
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The mosque, which has a square plan, wooden ceiling and hipped roof, was built in a masonry system using rubble stone materials. There is a high-ground gallery on the northern wall of the Harim area.
The polygonal-bodied minaret at the northwestern corner of the mosque has preserved its original structure up to the balcony.
In the cemetery surrounding the mosque on three sides, there are many tombstones dating back to the 18th and 19th centuries.
There is a primary school built in the 18th century adjacent to the northeast of the mosque. On the street side of the mosque is a Baroque style fountain built by Mihrimah Sultan for his father Mahmud II, and next to the mosque is a primary school built by Rami Pasha.
Evliya Çelebi described the Nişancı Pasha Mosque, with its garden structures surrounding the mosque, as one of the most beautiful mosques in the region and stated that there was once a bathhouse belonging to the mosque.
