Zühtü Paşa Mosque

Zühtü Paşa Mosque

Year Built
1884
Commissioned By
Ahmed Zühdü Pasha (Minister of Education and Finance of Abdul Hamid II)
Architect
Unknown
Location
Kadikoy
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Changes After Construction

  1. In 1889, a primary school was added; today it is used as a Quran school.

  2. At the end of the 1980s, an eight-columned fountain and musalla stones were added in front of the mihrab.

Featured Highlights

  • It is a square planned mosque designed in an eclectic style and adorned with Neo-Gothic and Neoclassical ornaments.

  • Its single dome sits on pendentives; there is a short-bodied, single-balcony minaret in the right corner of the mosque.

  • There are Kütahya tiles on the mihrab, and rich decorations on the wooden minbar and the preacher's pulpit.

  • There are verses written in gold gilt by the calligraphies Ebüzziya Mehmed Tevfik and Husamettin inside the dome and on the walls.

  • There is a small cemetery consisting of five graves. Here are the graves of Zühdü Pasha, his second wife Hatice Vahide Kamer Hanım, his son Asım Bey, his daughter Sulhiye Hanım and his daughter Ayşe Lutfiye Hanım, who was the trustee of the foundation.

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