Damat Ibrahim Pasa Medrese Istanbul

At the junction of Sehzadebasi Road  (Caddesi) and Dedeefendi Road (Caddesi) in Fatih is the elegant sebil (water dispenser) and attached to this medrese that was built by Nevsehirli Damat Ibrahim Pasa who was Grand Vizier to Sultan Ahmed III.

In the grounds here what was originally a library and lecture theatre (derşane) have been converted into a mosque. This important Grand Vizier was strangled to death during the Patrona Halil uprising and surprisingly has a somewhat modest tombstone. The East Turkestan Foundation is now housed in the complex.