Kasım Pasha Mosque

Kasım Pasha Mosque or Güzelce Kasım Pasha Mosque is an Ottoman-era mosque located in the Küçük Piyale neighbourhood of the Beyoğlu district of Istanbul Province. The mosque, which suffered two fires, reached its present form in the 19th century during the reign of Abdülaziz.

It was first commissioned by Güzelce Kasım Pasha, who was responsible for moving the Ottoman navy from Gallipoli to the Golden Horn, during the reign of Suleiman I, and built by Mimar Sinan in the year 1533-34 AD. This first mosque, made of wood, burned down completely in 1722. The completely burned mosque was rebuilt by Feyzullah Efendi. However, after another fire in the 19th century, the mosque was rebuilt for the last time by Abdülaziz as a single-domed, two-minaret structure. The mosque that survives to the present was built in 1891 and therefore displays abundant decorations in accordance with the style of the period. In the mosque courtyard there is a fountain dated 1737 and a shadirvan dated 1870, as well as a muwaqqithane and a sebil on the qibla side.

In the courtyard of the mosque there is the Feyzullah Efendi Fountain and, outside the courtyard, the Büyük Hamam. The still operating hamam consists of two sections for women and men and bears the characteristics of classical hamam architecture.