Sinan Pasha Mosque (Istanbul)
The Sinan Pasha Mosque ( Turkish Sinan Paşa Camii ) is a mosque in Istanbul . It was built by the Ottoman architect Sinan during the Ottoman Empire in the 1550s .
location
The mosque is located in the Istanbul district of Beşiktaş . To the southwest is the Türbe of the first Kapudan Pasha of the Ottoman Empire Khair ad-Din Barbarossa directly across the street from Beşiktaş Caddesi on the northern bank of the Bosporus on the European side. The Hayrettin İskele Mosque, donated by Barbarossa , is also located here . To the southwest are the Dolmabahçe Sarayı and the Beşiktaş ferry port. Here, as a tribute to Khair ad-Din Barbarossa, the Ottoman fleet often stopped and prayed for a victorious battle. Not infrequently, the naval commanders came to pray in the nearby Sinan Paschas mosque, which thereby gained in importance.
history
The Sinan Pascha Mosque was built between 1554 and 1555 by the Ottoman architect Sinan for the Admiral Sinan Pasha . Since the founder Sinan Pascha died in 1554, construction began only after his death. Sinan Pascha was the younger brother of Grand Vizier Riistem Pascha . Sinan Pascha came from today's Croatia and came to the palace with the boy harvest , where he was educated and prepared for his future role. Sinan Pascha was Sandschak - Bey des Paschalik Herzegovina and replaced Sokollu Mehmed Pascha as Kapudan Pascha in 1548 .
Before his death, Sinan Pascha had ordered his administrator Keyvan Kethüda to manage the foundation. The deed of foundation also decreed that a medrese and a primary school should be built in addition to the mosque . The wealthy Pasha inherited a palace near the hippodrome, property in Herzegovina and Constantinople, mills in İzmit and Herzegovina, and 1.9 million Asper in cash. A total of more than 3.27 million Asper were available for the construction, which were invested in shops and bathhouses in addition to the mosque complex in order to enable the foundation to make a regular living. In addition to the mosque, the medrese and the primary school were built, as well as 50 shops, 41 guest rooms, a bakery and a butcher's shop. The total cost was 1.84 million aspers. There was also a dervish convent nearby, a bath house in Beşiktaş and a mescit in a new neighborhood.
The building complex was built instead of a smaller mosque with a convent, which was built by the poet Mehmed Durmuş (also known as Deli Birader ).
architecture
The Sinan Pasha Mosque was built from alternating layers of light-colored ashlar and bricks, which was a cheaper construction method. A Turkish inscription on the rectangular fountain in the courtyard of the mosque dates its construction to the Muslim year 963 (1555/56). An Arabic inscription in a cartouche above the entrance gate to the mosque indicates the month of November and the year 1555. Although architectural historians long suspected that construction had already begun during Sinan Pascha's lifetime, two foundation deeds only allow the conclusion that construction began after the death of the founder.
In the north-west of the rectangular mosque there is a courtyard, which is enclosed by a U-shaped mederese without a classroom. In the inner courtyard there is a rectangular marble fountain with a roof. The prayer hall is spanned by a dome with a diameter of 12.6 meters. The dome with a window-pierced drum is supported by two free-standing hexagonal pillars and lies over a hexagon with six arches. There are also two smaller domes on each side. Originally a double portico was in front of the mosque . The first portico, decorated with five domes, was integrated into the prayer hall in 1749. The supporting columns were built into the walls, but were exposed again during restoration work in 2002. The outer second portico has been preserved to this day. The minbar and mihrāb are made of marble.
The interior of the mosque is less elaborately decorated than other mosques of the same era. Instead of the expensive İznik faiences , the walls were only painted. The original painting is no longer preserved, it was renewed in the 19th century. The northern entrance was changed slightly during restoration work in 1936/37. From 1972 to 1974 further restoration work was carried out in the courtyard and the rooms of the former medrese.
Web links
- Sinan Pasha Cami , Archnet
- Photos of the mosque , pbase.com
Individual evidence
- ^ Gülru Necipoğlu: The Age of Sinan: Architectural Culture in the Ottoman Empire . Reaction Books, London 2005, ISBN 1-86189-244-6 , pp. 416-421, here p. 416.
- ^ A b c Gülru Necipoğlu: The Age of Sinan: Architectural Culture in the Ottoman Empire . Reaction Books, London 2005, p. 419 and Appendix 2
- ↑ a b c d Gülru Necipoğlu: The Age of Sinan: Architectural Culture in the Ottoman Empire . Reaction Books, London 2005, p. 421.
- ↑ Wolfgang Müller-Wiener : Picture dictionary on the topography of Istanbul: Byzantion, Konstantinupolis, Istanbul up to the beginning of the 17th century . Wasmuth, Tübingen 1977, ISBN 3-8030-1022-5 , p. 459.
Coordinates: 41 ° 2 ′ 32.3 " N , 29 ° 0 ′ 22.3" E