Murat Pasha Mosque, Aksaray

For other uses, see Murat Pasha Mosque.

Murat Pasha Mosque
Religion
Affiliation	Islam
Location
Location	Aksaray, Fatih, Istanbul, Turkey
Location in the Fatih district of Istanbul
Geographic coordinates	41.010266°N 28.949001°E / 41.010266; 28.949001
Architecture
Type	Mosque
Style	Ottoman architecture
Groundbreaking	1465
Completed	1471
Specifications
Minaret(s)	1
Materials	brick, 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

1. Babinger 1952, pp. 202–203.
2. Stavrides 2001, pp. 62 (note 190), 415–416.

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.