Changes After Construction
During the restoration carried out in 1950, the narthex was covered with a wooden roof.
In the 1953 restoration, the five-domed narthex was reorganized; wavy eaves were added to the minaret, facade and dome.
Reinforced concrete tensioners imitating wood were added. The other structures of the complex, the madrasah, the bathhouse and the soup kitchen, have not survived to the present day; only the mosque and the tomb remain standing.
Featured Highlights
A mosque with an inverted T plan and a tabhane (a charitable institution established to distribute hot food to the poor and madrasah students); the central dome is supported by a half dome towards the mihrab. It has an original design with Ottoman and Byzantine influences.
The transition to the dome is provided by an alternating stone and brickwork and pendentives.
The balcony and the cube section are decorated with muqarnas (stalactites), and it has a cylindrical and thick body.
Baroque period hand-carved works; muqarnas details on the squinches and mihrab.
It is accepted that Rum Mehmed Pasha is buried in the octagonal tomb located in the southwest of the mosque.
This mosque is one of the rare examples of early Ottoman architecture in Üsküdar.
