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- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
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- Anatolia
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Summary
Firuz Ağa Camii is a tiny but elegant mosque on the south side of the start of Divan Yolu near the site of the ancient Hippodrome, on the road that follows the course of the Mese — Byzantine Constantinople's main thoroughfare 1.
The building
Its interest outweighs its size, for it belongs to the pre-1500 'preclassical' or Bursa style: built in 1491 for Firuz Ağa, Lord High Treasurer (Hazinedarbaşı) of Beyazit II, it is of the simplest type — a square room under a windowless dome on honeycomb pendentives, with a little three-bayed porch and, unusually, the minaret on the left 2. Firuz Ağa's tomb, a marble sarcophagus, lies on the terrace beside the mosque 2.
For young visitors
Beside Istanbul's oldest street stands a small mosque built in 1491 by the sultan's treasurer — small, but among the city's oldest mosques.
Curatorial notes
- Source read: Freely, A History of Ottoman Architecture (2011), pp. 214–215 (Firuz Ağa Camii).
People and things also explored
Abu Dulaf Mosque, Samarra· Great Mosque of Adana· Ahi Çelebi Mosque, Istanbul· al-Aqmar Mosque, Cairo· al-Attarine Madrasa, Fez· Great Mosque of Samarra· al-Janad Mosque, Ta'izz· al-Mansur Mosque (Kasbah Mosque), Marrakesh
Sources
- John Freely, A History of Ottoman Architecture (2011) , p.214-215
- John Freely, A History of Ottoman Architecture (2011) , p.215
- Goodwin, A History of Ottoman Architecture (1971)
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Firuz Aga Mosque, Istanbul”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/building/firuz-aga-mosque/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-23.