Ivaz Efendi Mosque
Kazasker İvaz Efendi Mosque, a mosque in Eğrikapı, Istanbul. It is dated 1585 and the plaque on the entrance door states that it is an Mimar Sinan mosque. There are large pits and tunnels in its garden. It is around the ruins of the Anemas dungeons. The mosque has no classical main door.
There are two doors to the right and left on the front facade. The mosque was built in stone-brick. The minaret is in the corner of the qibla wall. Only the mosque and the fountain remain from the mosque, which was once a complex. Ivaz Efendi is buried in the garden.
He was one of the Kazasker of Suleiman the Magnificent. He is also known as Manav İvazağa because he was from Manavgat. The mosque has a single dome and five half domes support the main dome. It is within the scope of the historical peninsula. İvazağa served as Anatolian and Rumeli kazasker.
Until 1998, there was the Sakal-i Sharif of the Prophet Muhammad in the mosque. However, it disappeared in an unknown manner and its fate is unknown.
The Ivaz Efendi Fountain opposite the courtyard entrance has been restored.
