Yahya Efendi Tomb
Yahya Efendi Tomb is a 1571 brick tomb built by Mimar Sinan, located across from Çırağan Palace in the Beşiktaş district of Istanbul, next to the Yahya Efendi Lodge. The tomb of Yahya Efendi, the famous mystic, scholar and poet of the reign of Suleiman I, is within the complex consisting of a lodge-tevhithane-medrese, the first construction of which was made by Mimar Sinan. It is a single-domed wooden structure on a square plan. Many religious orders, statesmen, ulema, members of the dynasty and the palace were buried in the graveyard of the tomb from the second half of the 16th century onwards, and the area surrounding the tomb became the cemetery of the Ottoman upper class in the second half of the 19th century, and later the family cemetery of the sultan. Especially the relatives of Abdulhamid II and Adile Sultan were buried here.
