Handan Agha Mosque is a mosque

Mosque

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 near the Golden Horn

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 in the Hasköy

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 neighborhood of Beyoğlu

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, Istanbul

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, Turkey

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. It is also known as the Kuşkonmaz or "Birds Don't Perch" Mosque. One of Sultan

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 Mehmed II

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's aghas, Handan Agha, had it built in the 15th century. The interior is decorated with İznik tiles

Iznik pottery

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 from the 16th and 17th centuries, with some maiolica

Maiolica

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 tiles from the 19th century. The basement of the mosque was formerly a boathouse

Boathouse

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, until the coastline was filled for land reclamation

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. The mosque was repaired in the 18th and 19th centuries, and the 1960s.