Unlike other mosques designed by Sinan that have a large central dome, the Piyale Pasha Mosque is constructed with six identical domes, arranged as two rows of three, each with a diameter of about . It is one of only two mosques in Istanbul with multiple domes, the other being
Vasat Atik Ali Pasha Mosque. The domes are supported in the center of the prayer hall by a pair of slender granite pillars. The minaret is placed in the centre of the anti-
qibla wall. It was rebuilt in the middle of the 19th century. Around three walls of the interior are a row of
Iznik tiles with inscriptions in a white
thuluth script on a cobalt-blue background. The interior walls are now whitewashed but they were originally decorated. The stained-glass in the windows of the qibla wall is not original. The domed octagonal mausoleum to the northwest of the mosque contains the tomb of Piyale Pasha together with those of his sons and daughters. Altogether there are thirteen sarcophagi. His wife, Gevherhan Sultan (daughter of
Selim II), remarried and is entombed in Selim II's mausoleum next to
Hagia Sophia. A number of identical Iznik tiled
lunette panels that are now on display in the
Musée du Louvre in
Paris, the
Museu Calouste Gulbenkian in
Lisbon and the
Victoria and Albert Museum in
London may have been removed from the Piyale Pasha Mosque in the 19th century. The panels would have been placed above the lower row of windows. Another possibility is that the lunette tiles came from a now demolished
kiosk that was associated with the mosque. Two tiles from another lunette panel and a pair of tiles that probably came from the
mihrab were sold at auction by
Christie's in 2004. ==Gallery==