Kamer Hatun Camii

The mosque that gave its name to the Kamer Hatun neighbourhood on the Tarlabaşı side of Beyoğlu. According to Wikipedia, the first mosque was built in 1514 by Selim I for his wet nurse Kamer Hatun and had fallen into ruin by the 19th century. The foundations had it rebuilt by Kemaleddin; the TDV Encyclopedia of Islam dates the rebuilding to 1911. It is counted among the important examples of the First National Architectural Movement. The mosque occupies 223 square metres of a 565 square metre plot; its walls are masonry, its roof is lead on a timber frame and its single minaret stands to the left of the mihrab. It is a neighbourhood mosque in use for worship.