Murat Pasha Mosque, Aksaray

41°00′37″N 28°56′56″E / 41.010266°N 28.949001°E / 41.010266; 28.949001ArchitectureTypeMosqueStyleOttoman architectureGroundbreaking1465Completed1471SpecificationsMinaret(s)1Materialsbrick, stone

The Murat Pasha Mosque (Turkish: Murat Paşa Camii) is a 15th century Ottoman mosque squeezed in between two busy roads linking Aksaray and Yusufpaşa in the Fatih district of Istanbul, Turkey.

Architecture

The mosque was commissioned in 1465-66 by Hass Murad Pasha (mod. Turkish Has Murat Paşa) ^[1] and completed after his death by his brother Mesih Pasha, who was buried here.^[2]

The mosque is designed in the early Ottoman style perfected in Bursa. The main space is a 2 x 1 rectangle covered by two identical domes, each 21 m (69 ft) high and 10.5 m (34 ft) in diameter. The mihrab and minbar are on the short side of the rectangle. The main space is approached via a narthex rather like those in Byzantine churches. This is preceded by a portico.

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  Entrance to the grounds of the mosque
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  The front facade of the mosque
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  The entrance portal of the mosque
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  Interior of the mosque, near the mihrab and minbar
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  Interior of the two main domes of the mosque

See also

• List of mosques
• Ottoman architecture

References

Sources

• Babinger, Franz (1952). "Eine Verfügung des Paläologen Chass Murad-Pasa von Mitte Regeb 876 = Dez./Jan. 1471-72". Documenta Islamica Inedita (PDF) (in German). Berlin: Akademie-Verlag. pp. 197–210.
• Stavrides, Théoharis (2001). The Sultan of Vezirs: The Life and Times of the Ottoman Grand Vezir Mahmud Pasha Angelović (1453–1474). Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-12106-5.