Changes After Construction
Its first construction was on land used as a Jewish cemetery.
It was rebuilt in 1889, commissioned by Sabiha Hanım, the daughter of the Minister of the Navy Hasan Hüsnü Pasha, with masonry walls, a wooden roof and a brick minaret.
The first official records regarding the mosque can be found in Ottoman documents dated 27 April 1908.
In the photographs of 1876, there are two windows in the mihrab wall, a wooden roof covered with tiles, and a minaret with a lead cone.
In the 1900s, changes were made, the minaret was renovated with stone material, and the roof was covered with lead.
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To the north of the mosque is a building used as a primary school, which was later converted into a residence.
There is a cistern and a fountain next to it on the lower floor.
It has masonry walls, a wooden roof and a single-balcony stone minaret.
There are windows on the mihrab wall.
After the Ottoman conquest of North Africa, a fashion for feeding monkeys started in Istanbul. The founder of the mosque did not approve of this and had the monkeys executed on the grounds that they were a means of entertainment. For this reason, he was known as "Maymunkeş (Monkeyslayer) Imam Abdülkerim Efendi".
