Rustem Pasha Mosque

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Rustem Paşa Camii (center)
Section and floor plan of the mosque, Gurlitt 1912

The Rustem Pasha Mosque ( Turkish Rüstem Paşa Camii ) is an Ottoman mosque in the district of Eminönü in Istanbul .

It was founded in 1561 by the Grand Vizier Rüstem Pascha and, after his death, under the supervision of the Foundation Administrator Mehmed Bey and Rüstem Pasha's wife Mihrimah Sultan , the daughter of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent , was built in the following years according to the plans of the architect Mimar Sinan . The year of completion is uncertain.

The mosque stands on a terrace above a row of shops in Hasırcılar Çarşısı in a lively bazaar street in the Tahtakale district. It has a single minaret and is especially known for the blue tiles from Iznik inside and on the outside wall under the portico .

photos

  • court

  • Interior

  • Interior

  • Iznik tiles

  • Iznik tiles

  • Iznik tiles

Web links

Commons : Rustem Pasha Mosque  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gülru Necipoğlu: The Age of Sinan. Architectural Culture in the Ottoman Empire. Reaction Books, London 2005, p. 32 ff.

Coordinates: 41 ° 1 '3.33 "  N , 28 ° 58' 7.49"  E