This is the Mehmet Paşa Camii, built in 1486 by Lala Mehmet Paşa, the former educator of Prince Ahmet, the oldest living son of sultan Beyazıt II It is renowned for its marble mimber (pulpit).

urce: ‘Türkye Tarihi Yerler Kılavuzu’ – M.Orhan Bayrak, Inkılâp Kitabevi, Istanbul, 1994.

Together with the mosque (and adjacent to it), a hostel (called ‘Misafirhane’ or ‘Tabhane’) annex soup kitchen (‘Imaret’) was built, and also a Medrese (school); they formed Mehmet Paşa’s ‘külliye’ (this is a complex of buildings, centered around a mosque and managed within a single institution, often based on a vakıf (foundation); additional to the mosque, it can be composed of several buildings for various benevolent services for the community).
The mosque had to be thoroughly repaired after the 1939 earthquake. These works came to an end around 1975.

On the picture: The portico, on the north side of the mosque, covered by six small domes.
The raised areas of the portico are this mosque’s ‘son cemaat yeri’ (= ‘area for those who came late’), where worshippers who reached the mosque late or at the last moment, will gather and fulfil their prayer duty.

Correspondent: J.M.Criel, Antwerpen.
Sources: ‘Vakıf Abideler ve eski Eserler’ - Vakıflar Genel Müdürlüğü, Ankara 1983.