Formerly: Constantine Lips Monastery
Fenari Isa Mosque is located at the intersect place between Vatan Avenue and Halacilar Avenue, about ten minutes walking from Aksaray Square. The building was originally a former church during the Byzantine period and was turned into a mosque in Ottoman period.
The building consists of two former Eastern Orthodox churches. The south church was first converted into a small mosque In 1497-1498, under the reign of Beyazid II, when a minaret was built in the southeast angle and also a mihrab in the apse was added as well. The mosque has its name after one of the head preachers of the madrasah whose name was Îsâ ("Jesus" in Arabic and Turkish).
Fires burnt down the building in 1633. When it was restored in 1636, Grand Vizier Bayram Pasha who ord...
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