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Figure 18: Karabaş Mustafa Ağa
Camii (Anthony E. Baker).
On the other hand, the founder’s türbe in the garden behind the
mosque is somewhat unusual. It is an open tomb: a dome on an
octagonal drum is supported by arches resting on four columns;
between the columns are carved marble balustrades and a carved
portal. The soffits of the arches are scalloped or undulating in a way
that some find pretty.
ç Başâ Ü Mescidi
On the Fifth Hill there is a tiny old mosque with the curious name
Üç Baş Mescidi, the Mescit of the Three Heads. Evliya Çelebi writes
that the mescit received this odd name ‘because it was built by a barber
who shaved three heads for a single copper coin, and, notwithstanding,
grew so rich that he was enabled to build this mosque, which is small
but particularly sanctified.’3 A more prosaic explanation is given in the
Hadikat-ül Cevami, where it is recorded that the founder of the mescit,
Nurettin Hamza ben Atallah, came from a village in Anatolia called Üç
Baş. An inscription over the gate gives the date of foundation as A. H.
940 (1532–3). This is the earliest dated mosque by Sinan. The mosque
has been greatly restored, all that remains of the original mescit are the
minaret and the inscribed portal.
ağmanâ Dr Camii
The small plex known as Drağman Camii is on the
main street that traverse the ridge between the Fifth and Sixth
Hills. The mosque is a minor work of Sinan. Inscriptions show
that plex was founded in 1541 by Yunus Bey, the famous
interpreter or dragoman (in Turkish drağman) of Süleyman the
Magnificent, of whom Bassano de Zara writes that he was a
Greek from Methoni and that he ‘possessed the Turkish, Greek
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Figure 19: Üç Baş Camii (Anthony
E. Baker).
Figure 20: Drağman Camii
(Anthony E. Baker).
and Italian