Fadil Mehmet Efendi mosque

Ebulfazl Mosque is located in the Kılıç Ali Paşa neighborhood of Beyoğlu. It is situated on a sloping site opposite the Italian Hospital on Defterdar Hill. It was commissioned in 1553 by Ebul Fazl Mehmed Efendi, the son of İdris-i Bitlisî, a statesman of the reign of Yavuz Sultan Selim who also had the aspects of a historian and writer. The architect of the mosque is Mimar Sinan. It was renovated in 1993. It has a rectangular plan, a dome, stone‑brick walls, and two rows of windows. The last prayer area is wooden and columned. The mosque’s fountain is at the front, and its ablution fountain is in the middle of the courtyard. The tomb of Ebul Fazl Mehmed Efendi in the mosque’s cemetery, together with other gravestones, has been transferred to the cemetery of Kılıç Ali Paşa Mosque.