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.{{sfn|Necipoğlu|2005|p=392}}

The mosque is in the form of a domed cube with an attached portico. The main dome has a diameter of {{convert|12|m|ft|abbr=off}} 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.{{sfn|Necipoğlu|2005|p=392}} 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.{{sfn|Necipoğlu|2005|p=393-394}}

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.{{sfn|Carswell|2006|pp=70-71}}{{sfn|Atasoy|Raby|1989|p=129}}

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

• List of Friday mosques designed by Mimar Sinan

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• {{cite book |last1=Atasoy |first1=Nurhan |last2=Raby |first2=Julian |year=1989 |title=Iznik: The Pottery of Ottoman Turkey |publisher=Alexandra Press |place=London |isbn=978-1-85669-054-6 }}
• {{cite book |last=Carswell |first=John |year=2006 |orig-year=1998 |title=Iznik Pottery |publisher=British Museum Press |place=London |isbn=978-0-7141-2441-4 }}
• {{ cite book |last= Necipoğlu |first=Gülru |year=2005 |title=The Age of Sinan: Architectural Culture in the Ottoman Empire |publisher=Reaktion Books |place=London |isbn=978-1-86189-253-9 }}

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• {{cite journal |last=Erdoğan |first=Abdülkadir |year=1938 |title=Silivrikapı'da Hadım İbrahim Paşa Camii |journal=Vakıflar Dergisi |volume=1 |pages=29–33 |url=http://acikerisim.fsm.edu.tr:8080/xmlui/handle/11352/1242 |language=tr | ref=none }}

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• [http://archnet.org/sites/1987 Hadım İbrahim Paşa Camii], ArchNet.
• [http://www.pbase.com/dosseman/hadim_ibrahim_pasha Some 60 pictures of the mosque]

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