Hadim Ibrahim Pasha Mosque

The Hadim Ibrahim Pasha Mosque was designed by Ottoman imperial architect Mimar Sinan for the Bosniak vizier Hadim (Eunuch) Ibrahim Pasha. The building was completed in 1551. == Architecture ==

The mosque is in the form of a domed cube with an attached portico. The main dome has a diameter of and is supported by eight internal buttresses. There are three tiers of windows. The five small domes of the portico are supported by arches with marble columns. The stone minaret, on the southwest end of the portico, was rebuilt in 1763–64. The mosque is similar in design to the earlier Bali Pasha Mosque in the Yenibahçe district of Istanbul which was completed in 1504–05. The mosque is decorated with a number of panels in coloured Iznik tiles. Under the portico on the north façade are three lunette panels and two roundels. The underglaze painted tiled panels have white thuluth lettering reserved on a dark cobalt blue background. Between the letters are flowers in purple and turquoise. Above the mihrab is a larger lunette panel painted in cobalt blue, turquoise and dark olive green. The purple colouring is characteristic of the 'Damascus' style of Iznik pottery but is unusual on tiles. The panels help establish the chronology of the different styles adopted by the Iznik potters. ==Gallery==

File:Istanbul Hadim Ibrahim Pasha Mosque 2015 0746.jpg|Hadim Ibrahim Pasha Mosque with the mark of Mimar Sinan on a pillar File:Hadim Ibrahim Pasha Mosque 0750.jpg|Hadim Ibrahim Mosque exterior dome File:Hadim Ibrahim Mosque 9234.jpg|Hadim Ibrahim Mosque muqarnas above the portal File:Hadim Ibrahim Pasha Mosque 0729.jpg|Hadim Ibrahim Mosque view towards the minbar File:Hadim Ibrahim Pasha Mosque 0719.jpg|Hadim Ibrahim Mosque view on top of the mihrab File:Hadim Ibrahim Pasha Mosque 0731.jpg|Hadim Ibrahim Mosque view of the top of the minbar, and squinch with muqarnas and perforated lines inlaid File:Hadim Ibrahim Pasha Mosque 0740.jpg|Hadim Ibrahim Pasha Mosque minbar on the side File:Hadim Ibrahim Pasha Mosque 0722.jpg|Hadim Ibrahim Mosque interior domes File:Hadim Ibrahim Pasha Mosque 0730.jpg|Hadim Ibrahim Mosque Islamic calligraphy above a window File:Hadim Ibrahim Pasha Mosque 0747`.jpg|Hadim Ibrahim Mosque Islamic calligraphy above a window File:Hadim Ibrahim Mosque 9228.jpg|Hadim Ibrahim Mosque Islamic calligraphy above a window ==See also==