İshak Pasha Mosque, Istanbul

"İshak Pasha Camii stands just outside the outer defence walls of Topkapı Sarayı, a short way down toward the Marmara from the Imperial Gate. Mosque and the large hamam across the street were built in 1486 by İshak Pasha, vezir under Fatih and grand vezir under Beyazit II, of whom his contemporary Kritovoulos wrote that he was 'a man of the wisest sort, experienced in many spheres, but especially a military leader and a man of courage'." ¹

'The mosque is of the simplest plan — a square room under a dome — and has lost its porch, originally of the curious two-dome-three-column type of which Kazancılar Camii is the best preserved example, with the door shifted to one side. The hamam, enormously larger than the mosque, must once have been very grand though it lacked a proper soğukluk and its hararet is curiously truncated; long disaffected, it is now partially in ruins.' ²