The Zal Mahmud Pasha Mosque ( tr, Zal Mahmut 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

Eyüp Eyüp () or Eyüpsultan is a district of the city of Istanbul, Turkey. The district extends from the Golden Horn all the way to the shore of the Black Sea. Eyüp is also the name of a prominent neighborhood and former village in the district, lo ...

district of

Istanbul Istanbul ( , ; tr, İstanbul ), formerly known as Constantinople ( grc-gre, Κωνσταντινούπολις; la, Constantinopolis), is the List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, largest city in Turkey, serving as the country's economic, ...

, Turkey. It was designed by the 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 ...

and completed in 1590.

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 Selim II ( Ottoman Turkish: سليم ثانى ''Selīm-i sānī'', tr, II. Selim; 28 May 1524 – 15 December 1574), also known as Selim the Blond ( tr, Sarı Selim) or Selim the Drunk ( tr, Sarhoş Selim), was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire ...

and his wife

Nurbanu Sultan Nurbanu Sultan ( ota, نور بانو سلطان; "''Queen of light''", 1525 – 7 December 1583) was Haseki Sultan of the Ottoman Empire as the principal consort of Sultan Selim II (reign 1566–1574), his legal wife, as well Valide Sultan (Su ...

. 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 Şehzade Mustafa (Ottoman Turkish: شهزاده مصطفى; 6 August 1515 – 6 October 1553) was an Ottoman prince and the son of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent and his consort Mahidevran Sultan. He was the prince-governor of Manisa from 1532 ...

, a half-brother of Selim II and Suleiman's eldest son. The mosque was designed by the imperial architect

. Building work began in 1577 but was not completed until 1590, two years after Sinan's death.

Architecture

The ''

mihrab Mihrab ( ar, محراب, ', pl. ') is a niche in the wall of a mosque that indicates the ''qibla'', the direction of the Kaaba in Mecca towards which Muslims should face when praying. The wall in which a ''mihrab'' appears is thus the "qibla w ...

'' is surrounded by a border of

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Gallery

File:Zal Mahmut Pasha mosque 8567.jpg, Zal Mahmut Pasha mosque exterior view from Selahi Mehmet Efendi Cami File:Zal Mahmut Pasha mosque 5115.jpg, Zal Mahmut Pasha mosque view from garden File:Zal Mahmut Pasha mosque 5111.jpg, Zal Mahmut Pasha mosque inside türbe File:Zal Mahmut Pasha mosque 4732.jpg, Zal Mahmut Pasha mosque exterior File:Zal Mahmut Pasha mosque 5130.jpg, Zal Mahmut Pasha mosque interior south to north File:Zal Mahmut Pasha mosque 4704.jpg, Zal Mahmut Pasha mosque interior File:Zal Mahmut Pasha mosque 5132.jpg, Zal Mahmut Pasha mosque interior view from first floor File:Zal Mahmut Pasha mosque 5133.jpg, Zal Mahmut Pasha mosque interior view from first floor File:Zal Mahmut Pasha mosque 4719.jpg, Zal Mahmut Pasha mosque top minber File:Zal Mahmut Pasha mosque 4711.jpg, Zal Mahmut Pasha mosque top mihrab File:Zal Mahmut Pasha mosque 4710.jpg, Zal Mahmut Pasha mosque tiles round mihrab

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