Sokollu Mehmed Pasha I Mosque built

Name: Sokollu Mehmed Pasha I Mosque built
Start: 1665

1665 CE.

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Sokollu Mehmed Pasha Mosque (Turkish: Sokollu Mehmet Paşa Camii) is a 16th-century Ottoman mosque in the Kadırga neighborhood in Fatih district, Istanbul, Turkey. It was commissioned jointly by the grand vizier Sokollu Mehmed Pasha and his wife Ismihan Sultan. It was designed by the imperial architect Mimar Sinan and completed in 1571/2. The mosque is noted for the fine quality of the Iznik tiles that decorate the interior walls.

Text from the Wikipedia article Sokollu Mehmed Pasha Mosque, Kadırga, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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