Başdurak Mosque
Başdurak Mosque, like Şadırvan(altı) and Kestanepazarı Mosques, was built along the shores of the inner harbor. The mosque’s construction inscription has not survived, but the earliest known information about it is found in Evliya Çelebi’s Seyahatname. According to this source, the mosque was built in 1652, and its patron was Hacı Hüseyin Ağa. However, neither […]