Şeyh Hüsameddin Mosque

Audio Narration

Construction Year:

1630

Location:

Fatih, İstanbul

Ordered by:

Sheikh Hüsameddin Bursevi

Architects:

Unknown

- Changes after its construction
  • It was abandoned over time and when only its four walls remained, its stones were sold by a contractor.
  • The mosque was revived thanks to the association formed by the people coming together between 1985 and 1988.
- Prominent features
  • It is also known as “Tulumcu Husam Mosque”.
  • It was built from cut stone.
  • The minaret is built on the arch of the entrance gate, which is a rare feature, and is an interesting example from an architectural point of view.
  • The walls of the rectangular mosque are made of cast stones, and the ceiling is reinforced concrete and has a wooden roof.
  • It was built together with the women’s gallery and the narthex.
  • Its minaret, which was rebuilt in accordance with the original, has a round body, a single balcony and a cast stone cone, starting from the second-floor level and above the door.
  • The inner wall skirts, columns, window tops, mihrab, minbar and preacher’s pulpit are decorated with Kütahya tiles.
  • There is a fountain with a dome and a marble chamber in its courtyard. It also has a marble-coated fountain for drinking water.
  • The garden is tidy and well-maintained, and there are some old graves in the mosque’s graveyard.
  • Although it is said that Sheikh Hüsameddin Bursevi, who died in 1632, had a tomb here, his grave does not exist today.