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Zal Mahmud Pasha Mosque

Zal Mahmud Pasha Mosque

Mosque in Turkey

Not to be confused with the 15th-century mosque, Mahmut Pasha Mosque, Eminönü.

The Zal Mahmud Pasha Mosque (Turkish: Zal Mahmut Paşa Camii) is a 16th-century Ottoman mosque located in the Eyüp district of Istanbul, Turkey. It was designed by the imperial architect Mimar Sinan and completed in 1590.

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History

The building of the mosque was jointly endowed by Şah Sultan and her second husband, the Bosnian born vizier, Zal Mahmud Pasha. Both had died in 1580. Şah was one of the daughters of the sultan Selim II and his wife Nurbanu Sultan. After the death of Şah Sultan's first husband in 1574 she married Zal Mahmud Pasha who in 1553 under Suleiman I's orders had strangled Şehzade Mustafa, a half-brother of Selim II and Suleiman's eldest son.[1]

The mosque was designed by the imperial architect Mimar Sinan. Building work began in 1577 but was not completed until 1590, two years after Sinan's death.[2]

Architecture

The mihrab is surrounded by a border of Iznik tiles.[3]

  • Zal Mahmut Pasha mosque exterior view from Selahi Mehmet Efendi Cami
  • Zal Mahmut Pasha mosque view from garden
  • Zal Mahmut Pasha mosque inside türbe
  • Zal Mahmut Pasha mosque exterior
  • Zal Mahmut Pasha mosque interior south to north
  • Zal Mahmut Pasha mosque interior
  • Zal Mahmut Pasha mosque interior view from first floor
  • Zal Mahmut Pasha mosque interior view from first floor
  • Zal Mahmut Pasha mosque top minber
  • Zal Mahmut Pasha mosque top mihrab
  • Zal Mahmut Pasha mosque tiles round mihrab

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Necipoğlu 2005, pp. 368–369.
  2. [2]
    Necipoğlu 2005, p. 372.
  3. [3]
    Necipoğlu 2005, p. 374.

Sources

  • Necipoğlu, Gülru (2005). The Age of Sinan: Architectural Culture in the Ottoman Empire. London: Reaktion Books. ISBN 978-1-86189-253-9.
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