Saçlı Abdülkadir Efendi Mosque

Saçlı Abdülkadir Efendi Mosque is located at a short distance from the Eyüp Sultan Mosque square in Istanbul. It belongs to the 16th century. It has a single dome. It is a fevkani mosque. It partially reflects the architectural features of the Classical period. The original mosque that Saçlı Abdülkadir Efendi built in 1538 on his father's tomb is not this one. It is the section now open that is attached to the right side of the building. It was once ruined and after being demolished was turned into the present mosque. The venue that functions as a mosque today was commissioned between 1585-1590 by Şeyhülislam Hoca Sadeddin Efendi for the purpose of Darülkurra. He bears the title Şeyhî, and is one of the Şeyhülislâms of the reign of Süleyman I (Kanuni Sultan Süleyman). His father is Abdürrahim Efendi, the sheikh of the Sivasî Tekke. In the tomb located adjacent to and in the direction of the Eyüp Sultan Mosque there are three graves. At the former site of the mosque are the graves of Şeyh Abdürrahim Efendi and his son, the founder of the mescit, Şeyhülislam Saçlı Abdülkadir Efendi. In the cemetery surrounding the mosque there are more than one hundred historic graves dating from the 16th–19th centuries. Among them are the graves of Hoca Sadeddin Efendi and Ibrahim Efendi, the hero of the novel Ibrahim Efendi’s Mansion by Samiha Ayverdi. The mosque is on Kalenderhane Street and, according to the qibla direction of Eyüp Sultan Mosque, is on the right side of the square. It is active today.