Hadim Ibrahim Pasha Mosque

41°00′21.6″N 28°55′21.7″E / 41.006000°N 28.922694°E / 41.006000; 28.922694ArchitectureArchitect(s)Mimar SinanTypeMosqueStyleOttomanCompleted1551SpecificationsDome dia. (inner)12 mMinaret(s)1

The Hadim Ibrahim Pasha Mosque (Turkish: Hadım İbrahim Paşa Camii) is a 16th-century Ottoman mosque located in the Silivrikapi neighborhood of Istanbul, Turkey.

History

The Hadim Ibrahim Pasha Mosque was designed by Ottoman imperial architect Mimar Sinan for the Bosniak vizier Hadim (Eunuch) Ibrahim Pasha. The building was completed in 1551.^[1]

Architecture

The mosque is in the form of a domed cube with an attached portico. The main dome has a diameter of 12 metres (39 feet) 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.^[1] The stone minaret, on the southwest end of the portico, was rebuilt in 1763-64. The mosque is similar in design to the earlier Bali Pasha Mosque in the Yenibahçe district of Istanbul which was completed in 1504-05.^[2]

The mosque is decorated with a number of panels in coloured Iznik tiles. Under the portico on the north façade are three lunette panels and two roundels. The underglaze painted tiled panels have white thuluth 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, 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.^[3][4]

Gallery

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  Hadim Ibrahim Pasha Mosque with the mark of Mimar Sinan on a pillar
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  Hadim Ibrahim Mosque exterior dome
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  Hadim Ibrahim Mosque muqarnas above the portal
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  Hadim Ibrahim Mosque view towards the minbar
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  Hadim Ibrahim Mosque view on top of the mihrab
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  Hadim Ibrahim Mosque view of the top of the minbar, and squinch with muqarnas and perforated lines inlaid
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  Hadim Ibrahim Pasha Mosque minbar on the side
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  Hadim Ibrahim Mosque interior domes
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  Hadim Ibrahim Mosque Islamic calligraphy above a window
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  Hadim Ibrahim Mosque Islamic calligraphy above a window
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  Hadim Ibrahim Mosque Islamic calligraphy above a window

See also

• List of Friday mosques designed by Mimar Sinan

References

Sources

• Atasoy, Nurhan; Raby, Julian (1989). Iznik: The Pottery of Ottoman Turkey. London: Alexandra Press. ISBN 978-1-85669-054-6.
• Carswell, John (2006) [1998]. Iznik Pottery. London: British Museum Press. ISBN 978-0-7141-2441-4.
• Necipoğlu, Gülru (2005). The Age of Sinan: Architectural Culture in the Ottoman Empire. London: Reaktion Books. ISBN 978-1-86189-253-9.

Further reading

• Erdoğan, Abdülkadir (1938). "Silivrikapı'da Hadım İbrahim Paşa Camii". Vakıflar Dergisi (in Turkish). 1: 29–33.

External links

• Hadım İbrahim Paşa Camii, ArchNet.
• Some 60 pictures of the mosque