Tahir Ağa Mosque

It was renovated as a masjid-dervish lodge in the 19th century.
It suffered a fire in the early 20th century and was largely destroyed.
It was damaged in the Cibali fire of 1918.
After the dervish lodges were closed in 1925, it was used as a residence for a while.
Its exterior was repaired in 1972, and its minaret, which was previously wooden, was rebuilt with a glass casement, projecting from the left rear corner of the gallery.
On January 7, 1983, the wooden minbar was added by the Fatih Mufti’s Office and the first Friday prayer was performed.

It is also known as “Tahiriye Dervish Lodge” together with its lodge.
It is a dervish lodge mosque and has a tomb, a hermitage and a guesthouse.
It has a large garden of 8 acres and is surrounded by large enclosing walls.
It is a square-plan building; the walls of the mosque are made of stone, the roof is wooden and covered with tiles.
Despite the renovations it has undergone, the lodge complex has largely preserved its original architecture.
The mihrab has a round arch and is designed as a hollow niche.
The pulpit, the gallery and the narthex are made of wood, with the pulpit standing on two wooden pillars.
The interior is 54 m² and there are no windows on the right wall. The mihrab wall and the left wall are illuminated by two windows, one on top and one on the bottom.
Its minaret has a glass case and is built to protrude from the left rear corner of the gallery.
There is a well at the entrance and a fountain in the courtyard.
Its founder, Seyyid Mehmed Tahir Agha, was the “Surre Emin” (The position known as the Surre Emin in the Ottoman Empire led the group that brought aid and gifts from Istanbul to Mecca and Medina) and was martyred on his return from Damascus. His severed head was brought to Istanbul and buried near his zawiya.
In the graveyard of the tomb, there is the polygonal domed tomb with a Thuluth inscription of Asude Hatun, the wet nurse of Bayezid II, and the tomb of Selahaddin-i Uşşaki, the third sheikh of the Uşşaki Order.