Parmakkapı Kadıasker Mehmet Efendi Mosque
- Changes after its construction
- Its minbar was placed by Kazgani (Kazancı) Hacı İsmail Agha, the scribe of the 71st
“Cemaat” (Community) of the Janissary Corps. - The mosque and school built by Kadıasker (Military Judge) Mehmed Efendi were
destroyed by an earthquake in 1763. - Janissary Chief Mustafa Agha, who lived in the same period, rebuilt the school and the
mosque. - In the great fire of 1918, the mosque and the school were completely burned and the
land was occupied. - The mosque was revived between 1960 and 1980 through an association established by
charitable people. - The mosque, which was damaged in the 1999 earthquake, was found to be unstable
according to the analyses conducted by Istanbul Technical University and was closed to
worship and demolished in 2012. - It was designed by Fatih Municipality in 2016, rebuilt by Istanbul Metropolitan
Municipality and opened for worship in 2019.
- Prominent features
- It is also known as “Parmakkapı Mosque”.
- Marmara marble was used in the courtyard, mihrab and minbar of the mosque.
- The minbar includes a wooden preacher’s pulpit and a wooden muezzin pulpit.
- The interior has been decorated with a completely unique hand-drawn decoration.
