Key facts
- Affiliation
- Islam
- Location
- Istanbul , Turkey
- Architect
- Mimar Sinan
- Type
- Ottoman-era mosque
- Groundbreaking
- 1561 ; 465 years ago ( 1561 )
- Completed
- 1563 ; 463 years ago ( 1563 )
- Materials
- granite , marble
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Section and plan of the mosque published by Cornelius Gurlitt in 1912 The Rüstem Pasha Mosque (Turkish: Rüstem Paşa Camii) is an Ottoman mosque located in the Hasırcılar Çarşısı (Strawmat Weavers Market) in the Tahtakale neighborhood of the Fatih district of Istanbul, Turkey, near the Spice Bazaar. Named after Rüstem Pasha, who served as Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire under Sultan Suleiman I, it was designed by the Ottoman imperial architect Mimar Sinan and completed in around 1563.
The mosque is noted for the many different designs of İznik tiles that cover almost every vertical surface both in the interior and under the entrance porch.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rüstem Pasha Mosque” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.