Şehzade Cihangir Mosque

Cihangir Mosque - located in the Purtelaş neighborhood of Beyog‘lu, at the edge of Cihangir Bay. The first mosque was built by Mimar Sinan for Prince Cihangir by order of Suleiman the Magnificent (1559). Later the mosque was destroyed many times during earthquakes and fires and rebuilt. The last reconstruction was in 1889 - rebuilt by order of Sultan Abdulhamid during World War II.

Today the mosque is rectangular in shape and built on a sloping site. The courtyard with supporting walls has two gates. The dome, 14 m wide, has four pillars, and there are minarets at the corners of these pillars. The arch walls are covered with large latticed windows and the upper parts are decorated. The dome and side wall cornices are covered with lead.

The mosque’s minbar is attached to the wall. In the main grave of the Friday area lies Shaykh Hasan Cihangiri. A water reservoir also built attached to the eastern wall in the adjacent area. On the north wall of the Friday area, carving work was done on marble slabs.

The communal prayer hall is closed, with domes on two sides and a cross dome in the center. There are twin minarets on both sides of the mosque. The mosque was restored in 2015 by the Directorate General of Foundations and, after three years of restoration work, reopened for worship in 2018. During the restoration process, thirty‑nine calligraphic panels dating from 1868‑1890 were removed from the mosque due to theft and taken to a museum. These works were written by calligraphers such as Mustafa Izzet, Hafiz Ahmad Sunbuliy, Samiy, Rakim, Hasan Rizo, Sabri, Shafik, Muhammad Fehmi, Muhammad Nazif, Nazif, Orif, Mehmed Tohir, Seyyid Ali, Alaeddin, Haseni, Ceriy, Misâidiy Rizo Üskudariy and Shevki.