Murat Pasha Mosque, Aksaray

Murat Paşa Mosque
Religion
Affiliation	Islam
Location
Location	Aksaray, Fatih, Istanbul, Turkey
Location in the Fatih district of Istanbul
Geographic coordinates	41°00′37″N 28°56′56″E / 41.010266°N 28.949001°E / 41.010266; 28.949001Coordinates: 41°00′37″N 28°56′56″E / 41.010266°N 28.949001°E / 41.010266; 28.949001
Architecture
Type	mosque
Groundbreaking	1465
Completed	1471
Specifications
Dome(s)	2
Minaret(s)	1
Materials	brick, stone

The Murat Paşa Mosque (Turkish: Murat Paşa Camii) is a 15th century Ottoman mosque at Aksaray in the Fatih district of Istanbul, Turkey.

Architecture[]

It was commissioned in 1465/66 by Hass Murad Pasha (mod. Turkish Has Murat Paşa).^[1] It was completed after his death by his brother Mesih Pasha, who was buried there.^[2]

The mosque is designed in the Bursa style with the main space covered by a number of identical domes. This is an early Ottoman style which was soon abandoned in favour of the single large dome with smaller extensions. In this case, the main space is a 2 x 1 rectangle and is covered with 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.

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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.