Changes After Construction
With the closure of the dervish lodges and zawiyas in 1925, many parts of the mosque were demolished and left in ruins.
It was revived as a mosque by the Cizmeci Family in 1985.
It was restored by Üsküdar Municipality in 2018.
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The structure, also known as the Nevruz Lodge, was built as a dervish lodge affiliated with the Qadiri order. The lodge included a semahane, soup kitchen, guesthouse, sheikh and dervish rooms, and a shrine.
It is claimed that Mehmet Akif Ersoy wrote a part of the Turkish National Anthem here.
The mosque has a wooden mihrab painted with white oil paint. Its semicircular niche is decorated with a plaque with a gilded tughra-shaped Basmalah and the 149th verse of the Surah Baqara*.
The mosque is also known as the mosque where the character Ömer Baba works as a muezzin in the famous Turkish TV series Kurtlar Vadisi.
It has a single balcony and is made of wood; the mosque's mihrab and wooden details are elegant examples of Ottoman decorative art.
