One of the most famous mosques in Turkey for architect Sinan Agha. The mosque is located in the Beyoglu district in the European section of Istanbul.
The mosque was built in the 16th century in the year 1581 AD in the courtyard of Tub Hana by order of Qilij Ali Pasha (one of the greatest naval leaders in the Ottoman era). There is a college and a school in the courtyard of the mosque. The mosque is the main part or component of the college located in the center of the courtyard that surrounds it. After the excavations of the roads that were carried out in the reforms in 1956, the perimeter of the courtyard has lost its shape.
The mosque is an architectural masterpiece of the architecture of the Hagia Sophia. The arcades of the mosque are covered with five domes. The roof of this section is made up of three sides of the hall.
The mosque is composed of 147 elegant windows, 24 of which are in the form of a dome. The mosque has a sea lantern. The mosque was built in the 16th century. The 16th century historical monument was moved to the Maritime Museum in 1948. The minaret of the mosque is a monolithic balcony that was renovated at the beginning of the 19th century. Baroque decorations were used in the architecture that characterized the architecture of that century.
The other building is a school with 18 rooms for students and on the right side of the mosque there is a bath for students in the form of a dome and there is also a water path on the walls of the courtyard Shows that the courtyard is inside the college. There is also an Ottoman-style fountain in the mosque. In the 19th century, the mosque was renovated and opened as an important archeological tourist attraction of the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities.
The Kallayj Ali Pasha Mosque is one of the mosques frequented by many tourists, archeologists, scholars and scholars to see the decorations, ceramics and the art of mixing open and closed architecture mixed with the architectural style of the 16th and 19th centuries.
