The Hadim Ibrahim Pasha Mosque ( tr, Hadım İbrahim Paşa Camii) is a 16th-century Ottoman

mosque A mosque (; from ar, مَسْجِد, masjid, ; literally "place of ritual prostration"), also called masjid, is a place of prayer for Muslims. Mosques are usually covered buildings, but can be any place where prayers ( sujud) are performed, ...

located in the Silivrikapi neighborhood of

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, Turkey.

History

The Hadim Ibrahim Pasha Mosque was designed by Ottoman imperial architect

Mimar Sinan Mimar Sinan ( ota, معمار سينان, translit=Mi'mâr Sinân, , ) ( 1488–1490 – 17 July 1588) also known as Koca Mi'mâr Sinân Âğâ, ("Sinan Agha (title), Agha the Grand Architect" or "Grand Sinan") was the chief Ottoman Empir ...

for the

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Hadim (Eunuch) Ibrahim Pasha. The building was completed in 1551.

Architecture

The mosque is in the form of a domed cube with an attached

portico A portico is a porch leading to the entrance of a building, or extended as a colonnade, with a roof structure over a walkway, supported by columns or enclosed by walls. This idea was widely used in ancient Greece and has influenced many cult ...

. The main dome has a diameter of and is supported by eight internal buttresses. There are three tiers of windows. The five small domes of the portico are supported by arches with marble columns. The stone minaret, on the southwest end of the portico, was rebuilt in 1763-64. The mosque is similar in design to the earlier

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in the Yenibahçe district of Istanbul which was completed in 1504-05. The mosque is decorated with a number of panels in coloured

Iznik tiles Iznik pottery, or Iznik ware, named after the town of İznik in western Anatolia where it was made, is a decorated ceramic that was produced from the last quarter of the 15th century until the end of the 17th century. İznik was an established ...

. Under the portico on the north façade are three

lunette A lunette (French ''lunette'', "little moon") is a half-moon shaped architectural space, variously filled with sculpture, painted, glazed, filled with recessed masonry, or void. A lunette may also be segmental, and the arch may be an arc take ...

panels and two roundels. The

underglaze Underglaze is a method of decorating pottery in which painted decoration is applied to the surface before it is covered with a transparent ceramic glaze and fired in a kiln. Because the glaze subsequently covers it, such decoration is completely ...

painted tiled panels have white ''

thuluth ''Thuluth'' ( ar, ثُلُث, ' or ar, خَطُّ الثُّلُثِ, '; fa, ثلث, ''Sols''; Turkish: ''Sülüs'', from ' "one-third") is a script variety of Islamic calligraphy. The straight angular forms of Kufic were replaced in the new scr ...

'' lettering reserved on a dark cobalt blue background. Between the letters are flowers in purple and turquoise. Above the ''mihrab'' is a larger lunette panel painted in

cobalt blue Cobalt blue is a blue pigment made by sintering cobalt(II) oxide with aluminum(III) oxide (alumina) at 1200 °C. Chemically, cobalt blue pigment is cobalt(II) oxide-aluminium oxide, or cobalt(II) aluminate, CoAl2O4. Cobalt blue is lighter ...

, turquoise and dark olive green. The purple colouring is characteristic of the 'Damascus' style of Iznik pottery but is unusual on tiles. The panels help establish the chronology of the different styles adopted by the Iznik potters.

Gallery

File:Istanbul Hadim Ibrahim Pasha Mosque 2015 0746.jpg, Hadim Ibrahim Pasha Mosque mark of Sinan File:Hadim Ibrahim Pasha Mosque 0750.jpg, Hadim Ibrahim Mosque exterior dome File:Hadim Ibrahim Mosque 9234.jpg, Hadim Ibrahim Mosque stalactited baldachino above entrance File:Hadim Ibrahim Pasha Mosque 0729.jpg, Hadim Ibrahim Mosque view towards minber File:Hadim Ibrahim Pasha Mosque 0719.jpg, Hadim Ibrahim Mosque top mihrab File:Hadim Ibrahim Pasha Mosque 0731.jpg, Hadim Ibrahim Mosque top minber and conch File:Hadim Ibrahim Pasha Mosque 0740.jpg, Hadim Ibrahim Mosque side minber File:Hadim Ibrahim Pasha Mosque 0722.jpg, Hadim Ibrahim Mosque interior domes File:Hadim Ibrahim Pasha Mosque 0730.jpg, Hadim Ibrahim Mosque calligraphy above window File:Hadim Ibrahim Pasha Mosque 0747`.jpg, Hadim Ibrahim Mosque calligraphy above window File:Hadim Ibrahim Mosque 9228.jpg, Hadim Ibrahim Mosque calligraphy above window

References

Sources

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External links

Hadım İbrahim Paşa Camii
ArchNet.
Some 60 pictures of the mosque
{{Authority control Mimar Sinan buildings Ottoman mosques in Istanbul 1551 establishments in the Ottoman Empire Mosques completed in 1551