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Hacı Şahabettin Mosque, Edirne

جامع حاجي شهاب الدين، أدرنة

The 'Cherry Mosque', inscription-dated 1436, founded by the vezir who commanded at Varna 1444 and the 1453 siege; noted for its unusual double mihrab, inside and on the porch.

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Era
The Gunpowder Empires
Region
Anatolia
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Architecture

Summary

Hacı Şahabettin Camii — Kirazlı Cami, 'the Cherry Mosque' — is inscription-dated 1436; its founder Hacı Şahabettin Pasha served as vezir and beylerbeyi of Rumeli under Murat II and Mehmet II, commanding armies at Varna in 1444 and the siege of Constantinople in 1453 1.

Form

A single-unit mosque under an eight-metre dome on pendentives carried on an octagonal drum; its two-bayed porch has vanished and the minaret rises at the north-east 1. Its curious feature is a double mihrab: one inside, and a second on the porch set in a moulded stalactite niche 1.

For young visitors

A commander who fought at Varna and the conquest of Constantinople built it in 1436 — with two mihrabs, one indoors and one out.

Curatorial notes

  • Source read: Freely, A History of Ottoman Architecture (2011), p. 97 (Hacı Şahabettin Camii).
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Abu Dulaf Mosque, Samarra· Great Mosque of Adana· Ahi Çelebi Mosque, Istanbul· al-Aqmar Mosque, Cairo· al-Attarine Madrasa, Fez· Great Mosque of Samarra· al-Janad Mosque, Ta'izz· al-Mansur Mosque (Kasbah Mosque), Marrakesh

Sources

  1. John Freely, A History of Ottoman Architecture (2011) , p.97
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islam.museum contributors. “Hacı Şahabettin Mosque, Edirne”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/building/haci-sahabettin-mosque-edirne/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-23.

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