While this was the mosque that I knew the least about going into the trip (it turns out it was commissioned and built by a couple of the Valide Sultans [Sultan's mother] in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries), I was happy to stumble upon it on my way back from Sulemaniyye and was struck by how much larger and more impressive it was from up close. It is directly across the Galata bridge where we disembarked from our ferry the night we arrived and we walked by in a travelers' daze without remarking on it. Having toured the interior and the courtyard I am now amazed at how much they were able to do with what is a relatively small mosque in comparison to its larger companions at Sultanahmet and Suleymaniyye. It is definitely worth exploration for anyone who will be in the area.
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