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This is the Hekimoğlu Ali Paşa Mosque. He was the son (oğlu) of a court physician (hekim) and himself was Grand Vezir for 15 years under Sultan Mahmut I. The mosque dates from 1734-35, the architect was Ömer Ağa. It has characteristics of the classical style and of the new baroque style.

You can see more of the region where this and several others is situated on my Istanbul Seventh Hill gallery. Note that additional pictures from June 2008 are visible only on this, the "Istanbul mosques", gallery. A year later I added pictures from June 2009.