Nişancı Mustafa Paşa Mosque
- Changes the building has undergone since its 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.
- Prominent features of the mosque
- 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.
