Laleli Mosque is at the Ordu and Fethi Bey Streets in the Laleli. This mosque is consist of a mosque, madrasa, fountain, sabil, soup-kitchen, a room for the timekeeper of the mosque, and a han.
Laleli Mosque was built by Sultan Mustafa III from 1760–1763 by Ottoman imperial architect Mehmet Tahir Ağa. The Mosque features both classical and baroque architectural styles. It was destroyed during the earthquake of 1765 and was refurbished in 1782.
The complex’s mosque contains an inner court encircled by 18 domes. There is a beautiful fountain located in the inner court which has three entrances facing three different directions. The dome of the mosque, built on a square plan, was placed on a pulley which has 24 window gaps was supported by six half-domes. The interior of the prayer hall is completely lit by 105 windows, including the twenty-four windows in the dome. The mosque has two minarets, each has a sherefe (single balcony) with extraordinary stone caps. After the road construction works of 1957 and 1958, the outer courtyard lost its original characteristics and the entrance door was set back from the wall, and the shops below the courtyard have taken their present form.
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