Changes After Construction
Renovation works were carried out during the reign of Sultan Mustafa III (1757-1774).
The other parts of the lodge have disappeared over time, and today only the mosque section, which is currently open for worship, remains.
In the courtyard of the building, there was a fountain with a large reservoir, small mirror stones, no inscription and neglected. This fountain was demolished during the road widening works in 1988.
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It is a rectangular structure with two rows of brick and one row of cut stone walls. It has a hipped roof and three windows on each side. There is a single door to the Harim and there is a gallery opposite the qibla.
Its mihrab is made of stalactite and its minbar is made of wood. There is no Sultan’s Lodge in the mosque. Its roof is wooden and tiled.
There is a small mihrab in the hall in the narthex, which has a wooden roof on six wooden columns.
The mosque was built as a lodge of Sunbuli order, consisting of dervish cells, Harem, Selamlık (an area where receptions and farewells were held in a lodge), a wooden school, fountain, graveyard and tomb. The other structures of the lodge have disappeared over time. The graveyard of the mosque contains the tomb of Sheikh Merkezzade Ahmet Efendi, one of the important figures of the Sunbuli order.
